Word: risings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, in a review of my Watch the North Wind Rise [March 28], states that I wrote of Christ...
...weather." To prove his point, he made a forecast at the beginning of 1948. His prediction named the 55 dates on which his solar cycles would begin, and stated that on those days the temperature in Washington would probably be below normal. In between those days, the temperature would rise by an average of y.i°F. Dr. Abbot had this forecast locked in the Smithsonian's safe...
...most parts of North America the warm, smoggy air would continue to rise and the winds would disperse it. But Los Angeles' upper air, instead of getting progressively cooler at higher levels, has a peculiar temperature inversion. There is a warm layer, usually at 1,000 to 3,000 ft., which sits on the smog. Prevailing winds from the Pacific High cannot readily blow the heavy cloud away to the east because of the mountains which half ring the city...
...facing them at the first annual meeting since his privately owned ABC had sold 500,000 shares of stock to the public last year, partly to get capital for TV expansion. Noble had some good news: ABC's program ratings and sales were both on the rise. But, he said, the cost of getting ABC established in TV means that the stockholders, who have had no dividends yet, are unlikely to get any this year or next. What, asked one stockholder, was the long-range outlook? Good, said Ed Noble; in a decade TV would...
...complicated. The Administration proposed to continue buying storable crops like wheat, corn and tobacco, to keep their prices up. But for perishables, such as meat, poultry, milk, vegetables-75% of the yearly farm output-the Government had something new to offer. It would let market prices for these commodities rise & fall with the tides of supply & demand. The U.S. Treasury would dole out to farmers the difference between the guaranteed prices and the market prices...