Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blame for past crashes on the Bureau and the radio beams which it operates. Cowed by this abuse, Director of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal stalwartly defended his organization at the meeting but admitted it needed funds. The airline operators, equally cowed, shunted blame onto radio failure because of such weather conditions as rain static. The conferees got together on an eleven-point program of improvements for radio and the Bureau,* scuttled home. Scarcely had they settled down last week when there came another major crash about which two things were immediately apparent-that neither radio nor the Bureau...
...Coral Sea they hit bad weather. The Sirocco leaked like a screen, was ready to go to pieces until they let it run with the gale. After three days of it, more dead than alive, they reached New Guinea, found a native pilot and set out for Port Moresby. Two days away, in a sudden cyclone, the Sirocco was smashed to splinters on a reef, "kindly, lovable old Dook" drowned...
...club. Harlow told of plans to show the moving pictures of the last season games between now and March 18 when practice is due to start. Captain-elect Russ Allen also spoke to the prospective candidates. The length of the practice is as yet undetermined but if the warm weather holds and the team is able to get outside first week it is possible that the coaching staff will keep the squad out six weeks instead of the contemplated four...
Crowds & Rain, During the planning of the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress, its officials were at pains to announce that, according to the Manila Weather Bureau, there had never been a typhoon during February, and during its first ten days there had been rain in only 47 out of 69 years. On the Luneta, on which there had been erected a tall, glass- enclosed, air-conditioned altar, two downpours of rain scattered the faithful who came to worship in crowds of from 50,000 to 200,000 at a time. Also, to the scandal of strait-laced Filipinos, the Congress coincided...
...again earned many thousand dollars for the care of infantile paralysis patients. Far from pleasing, however, was the news that the Public Utility Act of 1935, which he spent $200,000 to defeat in Congress, had been partly upheld in New York Circuit Court (TIME, Feb. 8). With rough weather ahead for Cities Service, from Temple Hospital last week old Mr. Doherty made one of the rare compromises of his life, offered to pay the company $1,250,000 in settlement of a stockholders' suit against...