Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Willis Ray Gregg, 58, famed meteorologist, since 1934 chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau,* which he entered 34 years ago; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago...
...defending champion had his inning first. Three weeks ago he drove his seven-ton, eight-wheeled Thunderbolt over the measured mile of glistening salt at an average speed of 345 m.p.h., 34 m.p.h. faster than man had ever traveled on earth. Last week, after a fortnight of unfavorable weather, Challenger Cobb had his inning. Sitting in the nose of his tear-shaped, front-and-rear-engined Railton† (only half the weight of Thunderbolt}, with his head accommodated in an aluminum cupola with a speak-easy window, Driver Cobb streaked over the measured mile in a little over...
...incredible speed of a mile a minute. Scientists agreed that the Englishmen could not travel much faster and live to tell about it (present rubber tires can take just so much friction). King-for-a-day Cobb, who had originally intended to continue the contest as long as weather permitted, blinked his eyes, decided to call it quits for this year...
...summer died and autumn rains swept the Atlantic seaboard, jolly Professor Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby last week talked about weather in a Swedish accent to members of the Fifth International Congress of Applied Mechanics, at Cambridge. Mass. New facts had been obtained, said Dr. Rossby, from weather sounding balloons and airplane explorations of the upper atmosphere. These had been woven together into an original theory about the general circulation of the atmosphere, an elaborate theory still thin in spots, but one that raises scientific hopes for more accurate weather prediction...
Professor Rossby promised that further study will reveal more significant facts on the origin and dispersal of storms. Mean while, he suggested that it would be more practical for the Weather Bureau to supplement its pressure maps with charts of the homogeneous air tongues. He has been using "isentropic charts" for over a year, he said, with excellent practical results...