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...humidity. At M.I.T., where in 1928 he launched the first U.S. meteorology school and trained weather experts for aviation, he started the first regular weather observation nights in the U.S. He found that an air mass retains the same specific humidity and potential temperature throughout its journey from the polar to the temperate zone. Result was more accurate forecasting over longer ranges; the U.S. Weather Bureau began to issue five-day forecasts, is steadily extending the span...
...Navy published a new chart of Antarctica and the South Polar regions. The chart, based in part on the surveys of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, was the most complete ever issued for the area. Famous names packed away in this geographer's time capsule: Franklin D. Roosevelt Sea; Ickes Mountain; Cordell Hull Glacier. Eminent names: Rockefeller Plateau; Sulzberger Bay; Edsel Ford Ranges. Other names: Mobiloil Bay; Hearst Land; Paul Block...
...back in the U.S. things were just as baffling. At the Fleishhacker Zoo in San Francisco the keepers tried to force a mate on Bill, the polar bear. "She would fiddle with doilies, empty ash trays, wash out his briar pipe with soap and water. . . . When she started hanging his ties on a patented, nickel-plated cedarwood tie rack [with] an automatic clip-shift tie release," Bill murdered her. Author Thurber loves Bill...
...TIME should have more closely scrutinized misreports of Professor Wood's distances which agree with those of Reader Pubols. TIME correctly reported the main point: that polar routes will vastly expedite future air travel, vastly change old concepts of distance...
Swedish Snaps. The polar bears in Stockholm's Scansen have not had their full rations of raw meat for three years. Neither have the Swedes had their sill & snaps (herring & aquavit) as often as before. They have managed to maintain their national Thursday evening meal of pea soup and pancakes-and they have managed to stay...