Word: updrafts
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...into the bomb region with Geiger counters and other instruments, and tell the Army & Navy which areas were too "hot" to be handled safely by their investigators. When, for example, he tested the atmosphere underneath the deadly cloud canopy, his instruments hardly turned a hair-a "boiling updraft" had already swept all floating fission products' high above him. But when he headed down toward the target ships, the Geiger counters "sang" like mad. "Each [ship] seemed to catch us in a beam, as though from a searchlight...
Ingredients: one cigarette smoked down to the burned finger stage, one pile rubbish, loose papers preferred, and a good healthy H entry updraft...
After the three-week hearing in Denver, CAB will study the evidence in detail. Who gets the certificates will not be decided for several months. Meanwhile, the hundreds of intrastate flights, authorized only by Colorado statute, will go on, scrambling from updraft to updraft over the jagged Rockies...
Durable Consumer Industries all found the updraft. International Harvester was out in front, up 21% on the bet that some of farmers' rising income would be spent on farm machinery...
...Five years ago the Akron was approaching the mooring mast at Camp Kearney near San Diego, Calif, when a sudden updraft tossed her 1,000 ft. aloft with three members of the ground crew dangling from a line. Two presently fell to their deaths (TIME, May 23, 1932). With this spectacular incident in mind, all four newsreel cameramen at Lakehurst had turned their lenses on the Hindenburg's ground crew at the crucial moment, thus missed the first flare of flame. The investigators last week appealed for any amateur film which might shed new light...