Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost no one east of the Rockies needs to be told that summer 1958 has been a season of abnormal rain, overcast skies and generally cooler temperatures, but last week meteorologists were ready to fix the blame. Principal culprit: the band of planetary winds that flow eastward across the North American continent at 10,000 to 40,000 ft. The planetary winds ordinarily stay far north in summer, allowing warm air to flow up freely from the South. But this summer, for reasons unknown, the winds have veered far southward into the U.S. middle, dragging with them cold northern...
While Republicans bickered, new Democratic Big Wheel Pat Brown rolled merrily eastward for conferences with party hierarchy. He was received in Washington as a man who already had November under his belt. Said he, blinking through his half-rimmed spectacles: "I'm not used to anything like this." Then, remembering his role as the wave of the future, he added: "But I will...
...tear gas, guns and ammunition so that the Lebanese government could control insurrection, speeded up a shipment of tanks, sent 18 C124 transports from Donaldson Air Force Base in South Carolina to West Germany to be within easy range of Lebanon. It also sent two Sixth Fleet amphibious units eastward in the Mediterranean with 3,600 Marines, ready if needed to back up U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock's word that "We are determined to help this government maintain internal security...
...Atlantic Coast that acts as a protective buffer to icy arctic blasts. This winter, because of abnormal patterns in the high altitude winds (TIME, Jan. 20), the Bermuda high has been flubbing its job. Result: successive masses of polar air have flowed down the Mississippi Valley and eastward, spreading out to reach deep into Florida, to bring abnormal cold and, in the clash with tropical air masses, heavy rains and snows...
...stream high overhead was still moving unusually fast, and it got an extra push from the two near-hurricanes that had formed when cold air from the north mixed with tropical air. A British weather ship stationed 600 miles west of Ireland reported a 230-mile wind blowing eastward at 34,000 ft. Transatlantic airliners, hooking rides on it, broke record after record. A turboprop Britannia of British Overseas Airways made the first commercial New York-London flight in under eight hours. A few days later an El Al Israel Airlines Britannia rode the jet wind from New York...