Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporting Dr. Millikan's successful investigation of cosmic rays in the upper stratosphere [TIME, Nov. 16], the great reduction in price of stratosphere sounding balloons evidently suggested real news interest. But that price reduction does not mean that manufacturers had formerly been making huge profits; it is result of an entirely new process of manufacture developed by intensive industrial research...
...Dinneen a reporter on the Boston Globe and author of "Ward Eight" and the articles "Murder in Massachusetts" and "The Kingfish of Massachusetts," which recently appeared in Harpers Magazine, will be the guest of honor at the weekly House Dinner on Monday. After dinner he will take in the Upper Commen Room on "A Realistic Approach to Local Politics". Outside guests are welcome to the speech...
Members of the Band Club, and their guests, besides the 114 members of this year's band will attend the banquet, which will be at 6.30 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Harvard Union...
Following a year and a half of experimentation, Harvard's weather scientists announced yesterday the first successful attempt in this country to secure upper air data from a free traveling radio weather balloon, at night...
...useful for night observations, as it has been for over a year in the day time, the radio balloon meteorograph becomes the best instrument for securing routine data of temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in the upper air. With an upper ceiling of 15 to 20 miles, the free balloon reaches much greater heights than weather airplanes. Its readings are transmitted automatically by short wave radio to a receiver on the ground, where the conditions are recorded on a revolving drum...