Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under a bitter and gusty east wind blowing out of Siberia and gathering momentum as it shrilled across Russia, Europe's highly domesticated inhabitants shivered, caught colds, froze to death, were snowbound and frostbitten. London, Paris and Berlin reported the coldest December weather in 47, 61 and 80 years respectively. Worst cold was in Scandinavia and eastern Europe: Norway reported 25° below zero Fahrenheit. Poland 27, Russia 45, and Novo-Sibirsk, Siberia...
...straits even in fair weather, the German Republic collapsed under the weight of the 1929-34 depression in which German unemployment soared to 7,000,000 above a nationwide wind drift of bankruptcies and failures. Called to power as Chancellor of the Third Reich on January 30, 1933 by aged, senile President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Hitler began to turn the Reich inside out. Unemployment was solved by: 1) a far-reaching program of public works; 2) an intense rearmament program, including a huge standing army; 3) enforced labor in the service of the State (the German Labor Corps...
...earth are richer. But every attempt to cash in on the St. Paul bonanza has failed. A boat called the Austral disappeared into the fog with all hands. Crews on the Kerguelen and Réve, two other ships which made the attempt, could not stand the chilly weather. Since the sole diet on St. Paul is lobster and fish, a 1931 party of seven got 1) terrible tempers; 2) scurvy. Four of them died...
...time L'lle Bourbon reached the Suez Canal, the women's arguments were as unbearably hot as the weather. Their bickering drove the senior radio operator and ship's doctor ashore at Djibouti. De Boers took aboard a doctor whom he found in French Somaliland. At Madagascar most of the white crew mutinied, and blacks were signed on in their places. Then the fractious expedition set off for frigid St. Paul...
When Gregg took charge of the Bureau in 1934, it was struggling along on $3,700,000 a year, was generally considered out of date. Today the Bureau is getting ahead. Air-mass analysis (study of weather phenomena in the upper air) has been taken up with a will. At six stations, small automatic radios attached to sounding balloons send upper-air recordings to ground receivers. At twelve stations, airplanes make daily recording nights. At 79 stations, pilot balloons furnish upper-air wind velocities. The Bureau has greatly expanded its special aids to airlines...