Word: cloudburst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cloudburst? Whatever is done for towns like Meadville, plants like Talon, must be done quickly, and nobody expected it to be done in time to save all from hardship. At Batavia, N.Y., Doehler Die Casting Co. expected to lay off 200 of its 700 employes soon; Massey-Harris Co. (farm implements) would have to lay off 500 of its 900 within two months unless it got more pig iron; E. N. Rowell Co. (paper boxes; 350 workers) would have to shut down altogether unless it got more paperboard. In Muskegon, Mich., a big Norge Refrigerator plant with 3,400 employes...
...driving along Florida Avenue when the sky suddenly darkened and rain poured down. It was a cloudburst that turned the afternoon into night. Jarvis had on a chauffeur's cap. Jessie Strieff thought he was a taxi driver and she called to him and jumped in his car. Jarvis smiled politely. The avenue was deserted. Everyone had run to cover to get out of the deluge. Half an hour later Jarvis left the girl's nude body in a nearby garage, drove...
...plans for the world's highest astronomical station to house the first U. S. coronagraph. Site of the new observatory is Climax, Colo., a hamlet of 1,500 souls, perched 11,300 feet high on a pass of the Great Divide. Chief advantage of Climax is a daily cloudburst, which lasts about an hour, washes the sky an intense blue, clear as any in the Western Hemisphere. No drifting motes of dust can settle on the coronagraph lens to mar the view...