Word: lat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even the Army and Navy could not go airships were carrying agents soliciting clients for Lend-Lease. Thus the board, in July 1945, brought out a brochure on Tibet by which it appeared that the proper spelling of the name of the Tibetan village lying at the intersection of Lat. 27° 31' N and Long. 85° 14' E was Mendong Gomba, not Mendong Gompa, and that to call it Men-tung-Ssu was altogether incorrect...
...U.S.S.R., which like California delights in its own superlatives, is the proud possessor of "the coldest spot on earth." Last week Moscow radio announced that at a place in Siberia (Lat. 63 north, Long. 143 east) near the Sea of Okhotsk the thermometer recently dived to -70.2° Centigrade...
...weathermen first spotted the hurricane when it towered up off the West Indies, at about lat. 16° N., long. 60° W. It was a monstrous specimen-a spinning funnel of black storm with a 140-mile-an-hour gale lining its core of calm. For six days, moving as a body about 15 m.p.h., it churned a path 500 miles wide up & across the Atlantic. And for six days U.S. meteorologists clocked its forward progress, studied its habits, and charted its course (see SCIENCE). When it hit North Carolina's ocean bulge on the seventh...
...Lehigh, Captain Vincent P. Arkins, 4,983 gross tons, owned by U.S. Maritime Commission, flying U.S. flag, lat 8° N, long. 14° W, bearing south along the African coast for Takoradi to pick up manganese ore consigned to U.S. . . . 8:55 a.m. . . . All well...
...Bold Venture, 3,222 gross tons, owned by U.S. Maritime Commission, flying Panamanian flag, lat. 57° N, long. 24° W, bearing north for Reykjavik with general cargo bound for Britain. . . . 11:40 p.m. . . . All well...