Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crashes on the Bureau and the radio beams which it operates. Cowed by this abuse, Director of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal stalwartly defended his organization at the meeting but admitted it needed funds. The airline operators, equally cowed, shunted blame onto radio failure because of such weather conditions as rain static. The conferees got together on an eleven-point program of improvements for radio and the Bureau,* scuttled home. Scarcely had they settled down last week when there came another major crash about which two things were immediately apparent-that neither radio nor the Bureau of Air Commerce...
...entertaining and occasionally hilarious, this is the first movie at the U. T. in weeks that clicks. The stale parts of the plot disappear under a thick layer of Oakieisms spiced with his fascinating drumming and pantomine by Auer. Two scenes made the critic laugh so hard that the rain shook off his hat down his neck. One is the Greek dance by the villainness on shoes whose soles Lily Pons has carefully soaped. A series of attempts by the immigration officers to find the French girl on the persons of "McLean's Wildcats" caused the second waterfall. Amid...
...reliefers, convicts and volunteers worked feverishly to raise and strengthen the thousand-mile, billion-dollar levee system which stood between them and disaster. The levees were still holding as the hump in the river's back reached Memphis at week's end. High wind or heavy rain might still send the swollen river roaring through and over them. It was going to be an anxious three weeks until the worst U. S. flood rolled out into the Gulf and history...
...Crowds & Rain, During the planning of the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress, its officials were at pains to announce that, according to the Manila Weather Bureau, there had never been a typhoon during February, and during its first ten days there had been rain in only 47 out of 69 years. On the Luneta, on which there had been erected a tall, glass- enclosed, air-conditioned altar, two downpours of rain scattered the faithful who came to worship in crowds of from 50,000 to 200,000 at a time. Also, to the scandal of strait-laced Filipinos, the Congress coincided...
...traced a consistent parallel which would show that sunspots cause war, prosperity, disease epidemics or drought. Astronomers agree, however, that at times of sunspot intensity more ultraviolet radiation comes from the sun to earth, the air averages about one degree cooler, slightly more rain falls and there are disturbances of the terrestrial magnetic field. At such times ordinary radio reception is more troubled by static. But a U. S. Bureau of Standards scientist has found evidence that ultra-short-wave reception is better in the daytime when sunspots are rampant (TIME...