Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the good people of Omaha mopped their brows under a temperature of 106°. For the tenth consecutive day their thermometers had registered more than 100°. In St. Louis hot weather history was made-with 110°. Vinita, Okla. topped that record with 117° on the 36th consecutive day of 100° or more heat. At the Century of Progress the Chicago Symphony Orchestra stopped a concert at the halfway point when the huge Havoline thermometer showed...
Sooner or later all heat waves must end. Late last week showers and clouds changed the weather. The heat wave rolled out of the Midwest and off the front pages but in its fiery wake lay death, dearth and desolation...
...from 691,000 sq. mi. of territory. It is normally lowest in winter when ice holds moisture back in the headwaters. It is normally highest between April and July. In June 1929 it was at top level, even with its banks, 30.8 ft. above the zero mark on the Weather Bureau's gauge. There was no June rise this year. In July the river fell more than six inches. Last week it was zero, an all-time low for July. "Never before," declared the Weather Bureau, "has there been such a general drying up of streams in July from...
...world's official altitude record (61,237 ft.) but to amass scientific data. Cost of the expedition was reported to be $1,000,000. In Moonlight Valley, a large natural amphitheatre in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Explorer's crew had waited weeks for favorable weather. To inflate the envelope with 210,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen had taken nine hours. Perched on the surrounding cliffs, 35,000 spectators had watched all night while a ground crew of 120 U. S. cavalrymen, working under cinema floodlights, swung into place the airtight gondola with...
...Construction of a 500-m.p.h. wind tunnel (see below) ¶ Increase of flying hours from 200 to 300 per Army pilot per year. ¶ Additional provision for training in night, instrument, radio beam and bad weather flying. ¶ A minimum of 2,320 airplanes for Army peacetime requirements. Present number: 1.500.* ¶ Development of a 1,000-h.p. liquid-cooled Diesel engine. ¶ Immediate organization of an independent "General Headquarters Air Force." composed of all tactical combat units of the Air Corps under a separate commander. ¶ An annual aircraft procurement program for Army & Navy with purchases by three methods...