Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stormy Weather. Last week Wisconsin obliged the pollsters in properly oracular fashion-by raising more questions than it really answered. The Republicans carried nine out of ten congressional districts, 58 out of 71 counties, and 58% of the total vote (for Ike, 426,408; for Chappie, 20,558). The G.O.P. percentage of total votes was down 18 points from the 1952 primary (when the Republicans came out in droves for a five-man race that did not include Eisenhower), and down only three points from the 1952 general election, when Ike carried the state...
Restoring the weather ship would cost an estimated $2 to 3 million, but is the least expensive way of "providing the frequent and complete surface and upper air data" necessary to discover trends in storm speeds, tracks, and intensities, he said...
Unfortunately, however, the bureau's present budget is "quite inadequate" to cover all the needs of weather reporting. Brooks suggested that Congress vote "at least" the budget asked for this year. This budget provides $30,804,600 for general weather services, $1,745,400 for administration, $2,500,000 for meteorological facilities, and $2,952,000 for research. Although the budget was substantially increased last year, this year only research was augmented...
Answering the Boston weather bureau's Saturday night prediction of "rain, changing to snow flurries," the storm left more than a million Massachusetts residents without electricity or telephones, forced television and radio stations off the air, stopped flights at Logan Airport, and blocked highways for several hours...
...Boston weather bureau last night again predicted possible snow flurries for today...