Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike Transamerican, which sent Pilot Parker D. ("Shorty") Cramer and a radioman to fly the proposed route?and lost them?Pan American did not equip its expeditions with aircraft. For a year they will study weather, hunt for landing fields. Watkins' party will maintain two bases about 70 mi. apart near Angamagsalik, just south of the Arctic Circle. The Michigan group, which is associated with the International Polar Year research, will make its main camp about 100 mi. above Uperniski, several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will forge across the interior of the Greenland...
...south last week Pan American was sending a different sort of expedition, with a less happy mission, into bitter, freezing weather. A Ford transport of Pan American-Grace Line had taken off from Santiago, Chile, with six passengers and a crew of three bound for Buenos Aires. Somewhere over the Andes in a winter blizzard the ship was lost. Hopelessly searchers tried to scour a storm-swept, chasm-striped area 220 mi. long, 150 mi. wide where the plane might have come down...
...there were 195 cases in New York City; by the second week of August, more than 1,200. Last year's epidemic spread from New York into New England, touched other parts of the country lightly, ran a three-month course. For those who feared that hot weather would bring another epidemic this year, Director William Hallock Park of the Bureau of Laboratories of New York's Department of Health had reassuring words last week. Said he: "Experience of health authorities all over the world indicates that a community which has suffered an extensive outbreak of poliomyelitis...
...told by some not too ancient mariner. New Author Walmsley's book will enthrall the large audience due to come its way. It speaks of fishermen's lives at Bramblewick, a tiny hamlet on the English North Sea coast. Heroes of the tale are the Lunns, who keep a weather eye out for any new chance to catch a living that the varying sea affords, keep a jealous friendly eye on the size of their rivals', the Fosdyck's, hauls. Villains of the tale are the stormy, treacherous North Sea, and the Bramblewick harbor entrance, a narrow passage between...
...important, a meteorological service was provided at the meet by Massachussetts Institute of Technology which loaned its famed Dr. Karl 0. Lange, an authority on soaring. Each day at 5 a. m. a plane climbed to 13,000 ft. with M. I. T.'s special instruments for recording weather data. At 7 a. m. Dr. Lange directed the glider pilots to the best ridge for the day's soaring, told them what currents to expect. Then pilots & crews started for the ridge, dragging their craft on trailers...