Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winters generally getting warmer? The U.S. Weather Bureau has found that they are. In the last 50 years, average winter temperatures in the U.S. have risen about two degrees. Last week Standard Oil of New Jersey reported that it has also found that winters are getting warmer, after an analysis of temperatures in 30 cities for the last 50 years. Measured in terms of a degree-day unit,* the standard in the oil industry for estimating fuel-oil needs, Jersey Standard found that winters are "running about 4% warmer," and that "the long-term trend is to milder winters...
Many an industry is already in step with the changes caused by warmer winters. In the clothing industry, the standard weight of men's suitings before the war was 14 to 15 oz. a yd.; now, few such weights are produced. In 1940, more than 3,000,000 heavy overcoats for men were sold; last year the figure was down to a million...
...masses hovered far above the U.S., swirling around a high-pressure center. Winds moving around this center kept moist air over the Gulf of Mexico from spreading, and steered Pacific storms off to the north. As summer wore on, the dry masses sank steadily, becoming compressed and growing warmer.,as they came down. The result: hot, dry weather over most of the country, disastrous drought in sections of 13 states. Last fortnight, the drought breeding weather high was cracked and pushed aside...
...face that Yugoslavia's Communist Boss Tito turned toward his erstwhile big brothers in the Kremlin was beaming more amiably. For a month or more, Yugoslav relations with the Soviet bloc had apparently been growing warmer-warmer than at any time since Tito broke with the Cominform nearly five years ago. The Yugoslav charge d'affaires in Moscow had been personally received by Foreign Minister Molotov, an unheard-of courtesy. Moscow was sending an envoy with the rank of minister to Belgrade, and an exchange of ambassadors was rumored. Criticism of Yugoslavia in the Russian press had almost...
After thousands of years, says Professor Plass, plants and the slow-moving seas will absorb most of the excess CO ² . But for centuries to come, if man's industrial growth continues, the earth's climate will continue to grow warmer...