Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least partially challenged. It is difficult to run a large and sprawling organization, such as the Athletic Department, on a tight budget. For one thing, nobody can predict in advance the extent of the income to be derived from football gate-receipts. This depends on team performance, weather, and other such imponderables. It is too easy to be harsh about H.A.A. finances; and it is sometimes unfair...
...assets of the book life lie chiefly in its small touches--description of the weather and of Yalie breakfast conversation...
...Weather Bureau believes that its tracer balloons proved successful on the first try. will become an important tool for studying hurricanes. Later models will be fancier, with instruments to measure pressure, temperature and humidity in the gale-ringed eyes of the storms...
Last week the Weather Bureau successfully tried out an apparatus that makes the hurricane itself tell the position of its center. An Air Force B50 flew over the calm eye of Hurricane Helene, then 500 miles east of Palm Beach. A metal cylinder dropped from its bomb bay. After it had fallen a while, a plastic bag popped out and inflated to form a balloon 20 ft. in diameter. From it dangled a miniature radio transmitter...
...well-known silver iodide and Dry Ice methods of cloud precipitation work only on clouds that are well below freezing. Warm clouds are common,too. and Dr. Florence W. van Straten of the Naval Weather Service reasoned that they should precipitate if some of their droplets could be made warmer than the others...