Word: gingered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bertie's latest misadventures for his club, the Junior Ganymede, an exclusive organization for butlers which keeps a book on the habits and peculiarities of their employers. Bertie is naturally concerned least the book fall into the wrong hands. The second is that Bertie's old Oxford chum. Harold "Ginger" Winship, is standing for Parliament in the by-election at Market Snodsbury, in deference to the wishes of his bossy finance, Florence Craye, Bertie goes to his Aunt Dahlia's house in Market Snodsbury to help Ginger--though unwillingly, since he too has been engaged to Florence Craye, with traumatic...
...Ginger hovered indecisively, Stormfury's scientific director, a soft-spoken meteorologist named R. Cecil Gentry, recommended an attack. Taking off from fields along the East Coast, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, 16 planes headed straight into the thick of the storm, the longest-lived hurricane on record. While instrument-packed planes monitored the tricky "bombing" runs, an Air Force C-130 transport and two U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder jets flying at 22,000 feet dropped hundreds of small explosive cylindrical canisters that sprayed tiny particles of silver iodide in the area outside the eye of the hurricane...
...Heat Engine. By thus "seeding" Ginger, scientists of Stormfury-a joint Commerce and Defense departments project-hoped to diminish the hurricane's awesome power, equivalent to the wallop of 400 20-megaton hydrogen bombs. Literally a huge heat engine, a hurricane is formed by spirals of warm, moist air rising from tropical seas. As the heat-packed vapor spins increasingly faster, it converges toward the eye of the storm and is forced upward; meanwhile within the eye, the temperature rises and pressure drops. Acting like a chimney, the walls of the warm vortex continue to refuel themselves...
...Somewhat Fickle. Ginger proved to be a more difficult target. Unlike Debbie, which was relatively compact and well formed, the latest hurricane was a huge, sprawling storm that lacked the classic, clearly defined eye and cloud walls. Nonetheless, Stormfury's planes made six successful seeding runs before breaking off the attack when Ginger turned toward the North Carolina coast. By week's end. as Ginger came ashore just east of Morehead City, causing some $1,000,000 damage, Stormfury's scientists had already begun studying data to determine whether the seeding had any real effect. Even...
...engineering, law and business training. Well, there I was with all three, yes-sir-ree-bob!" After taking charge of the modest firm in 1935, Moore revamped its stagnant sales and distribution operations, licensed independent bottlers abroad, and went beyond the company's cornerstone product, "The Champagne of Ginger Ales," by increasing the number of soft drinks to more than 20 and expanding Canada Dry's liquor line. By the time he stepped down as honorary chairman in 1967, annual sales had climbed from $7.5 million to $187 million...