Word: tornadoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Meteorologist Morris Tepper, the thing for tornado predictors to watch for is a "pressure jump." When conditions are right, as they all too frequently are in tornado regions, the air contains an "inversion," a layer whose temperature is sharply different from the air above or below it. Since cold air is heavier than warm air, the boundary between the layers may have "gravity waves" in it, just as the ocean has waves in the boundary between water...
Everybody in Brazil knows about Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello, or just plain "Chato." To some, Chato, a 63-year-old human tornado, is "a pirate from Paraiba" (his home state) ; to others he is the "only man in Brazil who gets things done." The boss of 28 newspapers, 19 radio stations, five magazines and two TV stations (TIME, June 8, 1953), Chato has channeled his efforts into every field, from organizing free milk stations to setting up Sao Paulo's first art museum...
...recent disaster operations," he said severely, would force Red Cross to return to its prewar policy of making special fund drives to help stricken cities rather than continuing to furnish aid out of its general fund. As a case in point, Harriman pointed to Flint, Mich. When a disastrous tornado hit Flint last June, he said, the Red Cross spent $600,000 to help victims. Meanwhile, a special committee in Flint was raising more than $900,000 in relief funds. Did the Red Cross get any of its money back? Said Harriman: "Not one cent of this was turned over...
Test Pilot Skeets Coleman started the Allison turboprop engine (5,500 h.p.), and the two counterrotating propellers roared like an indoor tornado. Climbing at about 2.5 ft. per second (a slow walk), the plane rose 60 ft. under perfect control. The restraining cables, hanging slack, were not necessary; Pilot Coleman rose and descended three times, hanging on his prop for 15 minutes and landing on the exact spot from which he took...
...local reporting under "deadline pressure," the Vicksburg (Miss.) Sunday Post-Herald (circ. 8,800). It won for its coverage of a tornado that struck Vicksburg (pop. 27,948) last December, killed 39, left 1,200 homeless and destroyed communications. Despite the destruction, City Editor Charles Faulk, 39, with a staff of only five reporters, quickly got out an edition of the paper with up-to-the-minute news and pictures of the entire disaster...