Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the cables were flashing this from Moscow, Colonel Lindbergh was flying northward from Paris. He alighted in thick weather at Rotterdam, refused to comment...
...Wall Street men take time to talk about the weather, but one morning last week a group sat in an office where Wall Street meets the East River and talked of little else. The occasion: a demonstration of the weather charting system which American Export Line expects to use when and if its subsidiary, American Export Air Lines, Inc., starts flying the Atlantic. Along one wall stood a huge map of the North Atlantic. Dotting the 3,445-mile course from Manhattan to Lisbon via the Azores were India-ink silhouettes of 14 ships, nine American Exporters, five Fascist...
From this line the first weather message came from the Exporter Exermont, northeast of Bermuda in the Gulf Stream. ''Wind: south-south-west; force: six m.p.h.; weather: few clouds; barometer: 30.37; visibility: excellent; temperature: 84° F." Soon other reports came jumbling in. Hour later the course was marked with weather bulletins all across the southern route...
Said Manhattan's good, grey Weather Chief Dr. James H. Kimball, the man who has kept a weather eye out for all transatlantic flying since Lindbergh: "In transatlantic flying there has never been as complete weather information available as that available here today." This was the cue for American Export Air Lines' energetic, Pan American-trained Vice President James Murchie Eaton to announce a new transatlantic air partnership-American Export Air Lines and Italy's Ala Littoria. There to confirm this news was suave Colonel Carlo Pezzani, adviser to the Balbo flight five years...
...society that goes with them are all missing. Perhaps the cup yachts and their smaller sisters are not, as many a fishing skipper is apt to term them, just "damn toy boats"; but the sight of two vessels that have earned their way and can take the weather as it comes is bound to be a heart-warming one to every sailor. It doesn't make any particular difference who wins, and much of that will be in the breaks of the weather anyway. They are both good boats, ad the races represent sailing returned to the days before...