Word: guant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's big bases now were in Norfolk and Guantánamo...
After experiments in St. Louis, a pilot station was set up at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 1944. A battery of three seismographs was arranged in a three-cornered pattern. These indicators measured the strength and nearness of the tremors set up by several full-fledged hurricanes which roared past Cuba that season. Results were good. This year the Navy established two more stations, one in Florida, one in Puerto Rico, to keep a triangulated finger squarely on storms in the Caribbean hurricane belt...