Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Track Slow. All was not sunny at Sunshine Park. On opening day a handful of customers showed up. It soon became a financial rarity: a track that was losing money. And Florida's cloudy weather this cold winter did not help. Yet except for a few gyps who "hopped" their horses, the racing was about as honest as it is anywhere-and like the big tracks, under state supervision...
...last and most serious blank space on the meteorologist's map is Antarctica, whose violent winds probably affect the whole world. Not until this gap is filled can the meteorologists trace every major weather condition to its birthplace...
Furthermore, the Department of Agriculture forecast that, if "the present good weather holds, the 1947 wheat crop would be the biggest of all time-a whopping 1,212,000,000 bushels (v. 1,156,000,000 in 1946, the previous high). On the basis of farmers' planting plans, said the Government, corn and other grain crops would also be huge-depending on the weather. Despite this talk of bumper crops, grain prices steadied at week's end, even rose a bit. Traders hoped that, with most other nations short of grains, the U.S. would continue its heavy exporting...
Follow the Track. A block system for the air's great open spaces will help aviation's most critical ill (congestion around busy airports, especially in thick weather) by spacing arriving planes. Two different methods are being tested to get them safely down out of the crowded air. One method: GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) watches the plane with radar while operators on the ground "talk" it down through the soup. The other: ILS (Instrument Landing System) guides the plane down a slanting radio beam...
...Holman, was a Texas ranch hand who had a local reputation as a "hoss traduh." He settled down with his family in Monahans, whose 35 weather-beaten houses marked only a wider place in the road. While Dad Holman kept a livery stable and feed store, his wife ran a boardinghouse grandiloquently called the "Holman Hotel." Young Gene helped around the hotel and attended the one-room country school...