Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weatherman Willis Ray Gregg, born 54 years ago in Phoenix, N. Y. graduated from Cornell in 1903, joined the Weather Bureau next year. He was summoned to Washington headquarters in 1915, made chief of the Aerological Division two years later. Eight years ago he tackled the job of organizing the Bureau's service for commercial airways, has been at it ever since. He makes his debut as Bureau chief this week at the Aeronautical Sciences Institute Convention in Manhattan...
...beginning of the winter to a mild, warm, southern climate and remain through the season. If, however, you elect to remain in your Virginia home on the Potomac, it is important that you take every precaution against catching cold. Be especially careful to avoid undue exposure in cold, wet weather...
Epilog. Thursday, Dec. 12, 1799, the weather being very bad, rain, hail and snow falling alternately, Washington rode out to his farm as usual, returned with coat and hair wet by snow, and sat down to dinner without changing his clothes. Next day he showed signs of a cold. His throat was hoarse. Washington, answering remonstrances: "I never take anything for a cold. Let it go as it came...
...weather map of business activity last week there was a high pressure area over Detroit. For the first time in five years U. S. motormakers could not fill their orders. Henry Ford had already opened two additional assembly plants. Chrysler plants, slow to get new streamlined cars into production, were last week operating with 21,000 more workers than last year. Hudson had 24,000 orders on hand and a working staff double its January average. Nash estimated that it would deliver more cars in the first quarter of this year than in all of last. Blamed in part...
...game, with the score 1-to-1, ceremonies took place. Diamond signet rings were presented to the famed forwards-Cook-Boucher-&-Cook; to Johnson, defense man who has raised a five-year-old son since that first game in the Garden; to silver-haired Manager Lester Patrick and to weather-beaten little Trainer Harry Westerby. When Murray Murdoch's turn came, there was a special ritual. Out stepped Lou Gehrig, baseball's "iron man," who has played 1,350 consecutive games with the New York Yankees. He presented the ring to Murdoch, only Ranger to play in each...