Word: weathered
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Uncounted bruised rumps and one crushed roof joined the weather's victim list yesterday in the watery aftermath of the worst ice and snow blitz to hit Cambridge in a generation...
What's more, "U.S. meteorologists have been perhaps the most productive in the world" in recent years. More international exchange of weather information, Reichelderfer admitted, would be helpful-particularly from Asia, South America and the Arctic. And on the whole, U.S. predictions are certainly not yet good enough: "That's about what we often say around here...
First, the Weather Bureau's research budget (now a skimpy $200,000 a year) needed a hefty boost. With about $10 million, Chief Forecaster Francis W. Reichelderfer figured that the bureau could give storm and snow clouds a deeper plumbing, learn a lot more about the mysteries of the upper air, and develop advanced radar storm detectors. The bureau also needed an electronic computer that would allow its statisticians to give more time to careful analyses of weather data. With such new knowledge and mechanical aids, Reichelderfer felt certain that the bureau's predictions would be nearer...
...Times, looking for the guilty parties, suggested that U.S. weathermen might profit by some tips from their fellow forecasters overseas. Back in the 1890s, when many Americans were still getting weather predictions from the almanac, France's Léon Teisserenc de Bort was finding out about the stratosphere, charting the upper air (with Germany's Richard Assmann) and collecting weather data from 30 stations all over the world. In 1919, Norway's Vilhelm Bjerknes and his son Jakob (now head of the Department of Meteorology at U.C.L.A.) hoisted forecasting into a third dimension...
After a few weather reports and records, CBS also got under way at 8 with a B-minus, hour-long movie (a boy photographer clicks with a big-city newspaper and a big-city girl). Du Mont continued with Singer Sylvie St. Claire, who relaxed on a sofa with a telephone and urged a melancholy baby to come to her. At 8:15., Du Mont offered a poor full-length movie-almost the only type that jealous Hollywood will allow its suspected rival...