Word: weather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most airmen steer clear of thunderclouds. Inside, there's apt to be a rough-house laced with lightning and rattling with hailstones. But sometimes thunderstorms cannot be dodged. So the Air Force, cooperating with the Navy, the Weather Bureau and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, undertook to find the best way to deal with them. If a plane flies too slowly through the vertical gusts, it may lose flying speed and stall. If it flies too fast, the gusts may tear its wings off. This week the Air Force published a chart showing how fast various planes should...
...afternoon the authorities were forced to admit the truth: three adverse weather reports had been received early in the morning and it had been deemed unwise to expose the newly refurbished scarlet uniforms and bearskins of the Guard's Brigade. Snapped Tory M.P. Hugh Linstead in a letter to the Times next day: "Have we now reached the stage when no one in authority dare say 'carry on' if a meteorologist says it is going to rain?" Brigade HQ countered apologetically: "There were storms-there was a cloudburst over Clapham Junction [four miles away]." Britons felt cheated...
...officially celebrated early in June in hope of decent weather...
Agriculture had predicted a good but unexciting harvest. Last week, totting up farmers' estimates after a month of moderate sun and providential rains, a whopping 75,000,000 bushels was added to the total. Barring bad weather, the Government said, farmers could expect a crop of 1,192,425,000 bushels, second only to last year's record 1,364,919,000 bushels...
...Weather & Orchids. For his safety record, Stan Kennedy thanks the weather (usually perfect for flying) and a heavy emphasis on maintenance, which works so smoothly that planes are often "turned around" at airports in five minutes. Moreover, his 54 pilots, most of them hand-picked war veterans headed by ex-Navy man Charles I. Elliott, know their routes as well as motormen. (One of them breaks the monotony of the same old daily run by scattering orchid seeds from his plane...