Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cyclone cut a swath of political destruction through a group of New Deal lieutenants who had sought to "purge" Senator Guy Mark Gillette from the party in Iowa's Senatorial primary (TIME, June 13). Last week Franklin Roosevelt picked up the pieces and prepared for more rough political weather. He was at pains to soothe hurt feelings by inviting Senator Gillette to Sunday luncheon. Son James, who had helped "My Friend Otha Wearin," Gillette's opponent, wrote the Senator a nice note...
...just around the corner: Housing, white hope of 1938. at long last seemed to be bestirring itself. In May, home building east of the Rockies, as shown last week by the F. W. Dodge reports, topped both April and March levels. Though this could logically be laid to the weather, it was noteworthy that engineering contracts of $45,250,000 were 27% above the same week of 1937, shoving the 1938 total to date 7% ahead of last year...
Scientists believe that continuous records of changes in the ionosphere will not only help to improve radio communication but may also yield vital information about the sun, about the nature of the upper atmosphere, and about earthly weather. Shifts in the ion layers occur constantly, and sometimes very rapidly, throughout the day and night, and are caused chiefly by changes in the intensity of the sun's radiation...
Phenomena found to affect the ionosphere are auroral displays, and terrestrial magnetic disturbances. An apparent close connection between radio wave propagation and weather conditions on the ground is being investigated by the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory of Harvard, in cooperation with the radio engineers...
...equipped airplane, piloted by Bob Reeve, carried the first load of equipment to the camp 60 miles from here, on May 16, after waiting five weeks for the weather to clear. As the plane had to fly over a 12,000 feet range, perfect flying weather was necessary, according to Washburn...