Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gang to use their pneumatic drill more efficiently and thus increase production per man. Stakhanov was taken to Moscow, feted by Stalin, loaded with all sorts of presents, including a phonograph with the record Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, and ever since the whole laboring mass of the Soviet Union has been urged, exhorted, tempted and commanded to emulate Stakhanov. Sluggards who do not want to speed up their work as Stakhanov did, have in some cases assassinated Soviet managers who tried to Stakhanovize their plants (TIME...
Died. Mrs. James A. Naismith, 67, wife of the University of Kansas professor of Physical Education who invented basketball at Springfield Mass, in 1891; of heart disease; at Lawrence, Kans. She played on the first girls' basketball team...
...Washington last week U. S. Weather Bureau officials cautiously told newshawks that they were having good luck with "air-mass analysis," a new weather forecasting technique which consists of a vertical examination of atmospheric conditions rather than a horizontal survey at Earth's surface. On five days during the previous week the Washington office received upper air data from Harvard's Blue Hill Observatory, where small sounding balloons were sent up with radio-meteorographs. These little gadgets contain a thermometer, hygrometer (humidity recorder), barometer, shortwave radio transmitter and batteries, encased in a streamlined aluminum shell, the whole weighing...
...mass theory holds that great masses of cold air and others of warm air rolling over the earth make weather by their interaction, causing rain, fog, snow. When a "cold front" slides over a "warm front" the air at the boundary is twisted and violent disturbances are likely to occur. The Weather Bureau is by no means the U. S. pioneer in this meteorological technique. In fact the Bureau's critics, of which it always has plenty, have reproached it for not making greater use of the method once its value was demonstrated. The Bureau has a quick retort...
...mass analysis was developed in Norway and was taken to the U. S. by Dr. Irving Parkhurst Krick of California Institute of Technology, who started using it for the benefit of air lines in 1932. The late Harris M. Hanshue, then president of Western Air Express, found the Krick forecasts 96.1% accurate, estimated that they saved him $35,000 in one year. Currently Dr. Krick's best customers are cinema producers, who some time ago discovered that good weather for outdoor "shooting" is one thing that even Hollywood cannot buy. Dr. Krick's uncanny ability to predict...