Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wide-eyed, naïve Mr. Rumrich set the theme for as fantastic a comedy as ever made fools of peepsters. He got $290 a month from the Germans. They got: 1) Government weather reports (available to anybody); 2) a subscription to the unofficial Army & Navy Register (which welcomes subscribers); 3) a Government Printing Office list of Army & Navy publications (free to all); 4) continuous assurances, often delivered by transatlantic messenger, that invaluable information would be turned up most...
...financial rocks by the fair-weather crew of heirs and advisers who had steered it since the death in 1932 of scroogy old Captain Robert Dollar, the round-the-world Dollar Steamship Line was taken in tow last August by the Maritime Commission. Of the $7,000,000 in subsidy and repair and working-capital loans then allotted, $4,000,000 was last week available, $2,000,000 of it earmarked for bringing the fleet up to snuff...
Last week Violinist Virovai made his first bow to a U. S. audience. Few of the Philharmonic-Symphony concertgoers in Manhattan's weather-beaten Carnegie Hall had ever heard of him. But before he was even half way through Vieuxtemps' rhetorical D Minor Concerto, the Philharmonic's audience was shouting and stamping fit to bust the buttons off its stuffed shirts. When it was over, self-possessed little Violinist Virovai was given a terrific hand. Critics straightway placed him in the front rank of present-day fiddlers, acclaimed his appearance as one of the most exciting debuts...
...future the stubby Ex-boats will carry delicate weather instruments as well as tractors, copper, hides and hemp, marble, oil and tin. The instruments will record weather conditions for Export's year-old subsidiary-American Export Airlines, Inc. If their data gives as clear a green light as last week's stock issue, test flights will start next spring with a Consolidated flying boat...
...truth is that science knows little about the cause of these phenomena which are continually affecting our lives. Up to a few years ago meteorologists carried on weather forecasts mainly from what the present weather maps show--that is, horizontal, cyclical movements. But it is becoming increasingly evident that vertical currents while harder to locate, are equally important...