Word: cumulus
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...bomb bay was closed. In the purpling east, cumulus clouds bumped heads in a huddle. As Major Woodrow P. Swancutt pushed the throttles all the way forward, a rainbow shone overhead. Dave's Dream gathered speed, then rose slowly into the easterly wind...
...went to 40-year-old Robert Gwathmey, art teacher at Manhattan's Cooper Union, for a postery agricultural study called Hoeing. Third prize of $500 went to 28-year-old John Rogers Cox for White Cloud, a stylized, theatrically lighted farm scene under a lone, spectacular cumulus vapor...
...Most helpful clouds are the woolly, lumpy cumulus and its relatives-the high stratocumulus (bumpy) and altocumulus. These rich vapors are excellent for playing hide-&-seek with enemy planes, give a fighter cover for sudden dodges and quick surprises. Because the cumulus frequently hovers over islands, it often shows a flyer where land is when he cannot see the land itself. It also shows glider pilots where rising air currents...
...Clouds as weather forecasters: thin cirrus clouds or altocumuli mean fair weather for at least 24 hours ("the higher the clouds, the finer the weather"); thickening cirrus and layers of clouds moving in different directions mean rain; big cumulus clouds in the morning mean thunder showers in the afternoon; persisting fog means rain by afternoon or night...
...last about three months. Under Cleaner-Upper McNinch, FCC has been more turbulent than ever. FCC Commissioners were at odds on its investigations into superpower and radio rates, practically disavowed Commissioner Walker's drastic 1,100 page report on American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Capping the thunder-headed cumulus was Chairman McNinch's unrelenting war on two fellow-Commissioners, publicity-hunting George Henry Payne and the Navy's Commander Tunis Augustus MacDonough Craven, the Commission's only technical...