Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began buying into Butler Bros, two years ago, many a Wall Streeter thought "smart money" had moved in, and jumped aboard. They liked it even better when the smart money brought in a smart new president, handsome, hustling G. Robert Herberger (TIME, Aug.11, 1947), a onetime clerk in St. Cloud, Minn. (pop. 25,000) who had made a big name in retailing...
Hollywood, brooding about its newfangled competitor, television, likes to think of it as a cloud that is still no bigger than a man's hand. Last week the TV cloud was casting a sizable shadow on one of the U.S. screen's hardiest perennials: the newsreel...
Staying closer to home, other astronomers have been studying the sun's immediate family of planets. Last week, New York University's Dr. Hans Panofsky gave the American Meteorological Society the latest word on Jupiter's atmospheric oddities. Oddest is the "red spot," a cloud 30,000 miles long and about 10,000 miles wide which goes around the planet's axis in a little less than ten hours. Its speed varies a few yards per second; so do the earth's westerly winds. Both, presumably, are reacting to a common cause-something...
...help make the cloud, a daily quota of 100 tons of metallic oxides goes up the flue. Factory smokestacks, city dumps, backyard trash fires, automobile exhausts and even coffee roasters unite in sending up an immense mess of aerial garbage-estimated altogether at 2,000 to 5,000 tons...
...Angeles' upper air, instead of getting progressively cooler at higher levels, has a peculiar temperature inversion. There is a warm layer, usually at 1,000 to 3,000 ft., which sits on the smog. Prevailing winds from the Pacific High cannot readily blow the heavy cloud away to the east because of the mountains which half ring the city...