Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even welded together enough equipment to make himself an eight-row planter, thus spanning twelve acres an hour at 4 m.p.h. International Harvester has a new Electrall tractor with an electric generator that can power attachments to do any job from boring post holes to shearing sheep. If a storm knocks out farm power lines, it can be hooked into the household circuits...
...completely understood. But practical information about them has accumulated. In 1948. Meteorologists Ernest J. Fawbush and Robert C. Miller were on duty at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, when a tornado swept across it. After the disaster they went over their data on conditions before the storm and found a "peculiar pattern." Five days later they came to their office, took a look at the day's charts and saw the same weather pattern. They did not dare use the dread word "tornado," but they told key men about their hunch that a tornado was coming. Tinker Field...
This year two sferics-detecting networks are operating experimentally out of Tinker Field and Kansas City. They have radars that watch for squall lines, which average 150 miles long, each containing 15 to 20 thunderstorms. As the line advances, the sferics detectors sweep from storm to storm, measuring the frequency of its radio waves. In a violent squall line, two or three of the storms may be of the type that can produce tornadoes...
...Tungting Lake region, badly ravaged by the floods, one in every two peasants was reported starving; in one town in Hunan, 527 out of 600 families were dependent on relief. Kiangsi daily admitted food riots in Sunwu county, where 20 peasants were killed or wounded when they tried to storm Communist storage granaries. The peasant resentment was so bad, People's Daily admitted, that "most party workers are either afraid of offending the masses, or were blamed by their own families . . . They are afraid of sarcasm and afraid to lead. They feel the work is so difficult that they...
...been too optimistic. Before a House Small Business subcommittee appeared several small businessmen, complaining about an aluminum shortage. Furthermore, they charged that the industry's Big Three-Aluminum Corp. of America, Reynolds and Kaiser-were discriminating against independent fabricators. Roger Widing, whose East Rochester, N.Y. company makes aluminum storm doors and windows, said that last year he received 336,000 Ibs. a month; now he is getting 75,000 Ibs. Widing suspected that the producers have been keeping their own fabricating divisions operating by cutting his supply...