Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most businessmen, the outlook for the first half of this year is for continuing fair weather. But what about the second half? Speaking last week before a group of businessmen in Manhattan, Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter said: "The outlook is for little change during the first three quarters of the year and for a rise in production in the fourth quarter...
Guided by Weather Bureau scientists, every Government agency that can take a hand is planning to help the National Hurricane Research Project. From Trinidad to Florida, 27 stations will launch weather balloons and record the radio reports on the weather they pass through. The Air Force will send flying laboratories into each hurricane. B50 bombers will take care of altitudes from 1,000 to 25,000 ft., and a B-47 jet-bomber crew will make runs between 30,000 and 45,000 ft. All the planes will bristle with instruments to measure everything from the temperature to electrical conditions...
...soon as the hurricane's calm blue eye takes shape, the Weather Bureau plans to drop a balloon inside it. Equipped with automatic instruments to keep it at a constant level, it will float serenely in the heart of the storm, reporting its position by radio and tracking the hurricane...
Fine Structure. The purpose of all this effort, says Meteorologist Robert H. Simpson, the Weather Bureau's head of the project, is to get a line on the "fine structure" of hurricanes, to learn where they get their energy and how they use it in building up destructive force...
...reserve for liability claims. By the time Rutherfurd and his men had finished editing the McGinnis management's books, they had a total charge against income of $4,395,000. To this they added a $634,000 operating loss for the month of December, caused largely by rough weather and aging equipment, then subtracted the whole amount from the previous eleven-month figure...