Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conclusions: Flying over established routes is 61% safer than a year ago; "miscellaneous" operations, 11% more dangerous; flying in general, 1.66% safer. A smaller proportion of accidents (57.14%) is blamable upon personnel* less upon motor failures (15.02%), less upon airplane failures (8.78%), more upon weather, darkness, airport & terrain...
Notable was the fact that "miscellaneous" flights were about 11,000,000 mi. less than in July-December 1929. Part of the difference is due to weather, which is better for flying in the last six months than in the first six months of any calendar year. Part is also due to more careful procedure within the Department of Commerce, more rigorous checking of pilots' extravagant claims of "hours." But much of the slackness was undoubtedly a falling off of costly private flying, even of joy-hopping, because of the Depression...
...present air conditioning is expensive unless a whole building is equipped when first built. Some tycoons, however, have the air in their offices conditioned (Orlando Franklin Weber, president of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., is a stout booster for "manufactured weather") and the cost is within the reach of homeowners. Ambition of the air-conditioners is "to make a building not cooled in summer as obsolete as one not heated in winter...
Final preparation for the Michigan game was somewhat hampered yesterday by the cold weather, which resulted in a frozen field unfit for practice; after a few minutes of kicking and passing in the Stadium, the team retired to the Briggs Cage, where the seconds put on Michigan plays and the first team put on their own formations...
...Arbor, Mich., Nov. 6, 1930--As the temperature dropped down to real football weather today the Michigan gridders went through the last practice on Ferry Field before entraining for the big fray at Cambridge. The practice session was called early and a two hour workout was spent before the departure at 5 o'clock...