Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friends of Harvard Track will be honored with a special preview of this year's teams this evening as the varsity, freshmen, and several members of the B.C. and B.U. track teams hold an informal intrasquad time trial in Briggs Cage. The weight events will begin at 6:30, with the first running event scheduled...
...other fields. The Weather Bureau was the only large employer, and although, under Francis W. Reichelderfer, it was considerably modernized, it still had few jobs. Hating to see his beloved science slump to its prewar level, Rossby tried to persuade private industry to hire meteorologists or to contract for special meteorological services. For a while he put his heart into this promotion effort, writing and even answering quite a lot of letters. An important step was to persuade the Weather Bureau to make its Teletype weather data available to qualified persons to interpret as they...
...rural quacks who went by the phases of the moon or the furriness of caterpillars. The postwar crop is generally more responsible and far more effective. Most of them do not try "to beat the Weather Bureau." Instead, they take Weather Bureau information and extract from it facts of special importance to their customers. They coach oil companies on whether they should evacuate their offshore drilling rigs in the path of a hurricane. Knowledge that evacuation is not necessary may save many thousands of dollars. Small business for the private weathermen is advising whether to call off outdoor fairs...
...machines from both ground stations and upper-air probes. Some 1,400 punched cards cover North America. Other information equally important comes from the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, including Soviet Russia and Communist China. The machine even "edits" the raw data, selecting from masses of figures the special ones wanted, such as air pressure at 18,000 ft. over the Aleutian Islands...
...musical review (title: America on the Move) that ran six times a day. Among the show stoppers: the high-priced cars that will go into limited production this year-Cadillac's $12,500 Eldorado Brougham (output restricted to 1,000 the first year), Pontiac's convertible Bonneville Special (only 2,000, and for dealer use only), Ford's retractable hardtop convertible (about...