Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What does the Weather Man look like? Most people curse him; few visualize him. Last week, on the Du Mont Network (Mon.-Fri., 6:05 p.m.), televiewers got a good look at the Weather...
Then the camera's eye fixed itself on Fidler's wand, as it pointed to the asterisks (snow), dots (rain), commas (drizzle) and other symbols on the maps. Fidler, the U.S. Weather Bureau's one-man radio and television department, was launching a show that he hopes to keep simple and uncluttered. His forecasts will ignore such weather map standbys as isobars ("too confusing...
...bureau, delighted with the beginning, offered the show to any other television station or network that wanted it. "It's just our sort of medium," said Chief Forecaster Francis W. Reichelderfer. "Our problem has always been to paint the weather picture in words, and . . . they don't convey enough...
...Somebody's going to take one hell of a licking on this street. It looks like there's going to be more finance people operating the used car business than there are models on the lots." Cashless Customers. What caused the drop? Northern dealers blamed bad winter weather and increased new car production...
...Miami, where the weather was fine, the lag in tourist business was blamed. An other reason was that the tumble in grain prices had knocked many a farmer out of the market. All over, customers were running out of money and could not afford the still sky-high prices...