Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other scientists are using the balloons to carry radio broadcasting devices into the stratosphere to send back useful data which will be of great value in long-range weather forecasting. Pioneers interested in transatlantic air service are also using them to get weather data. An expedition from M. I. T. will use them in a hurricane study...
...very positive limit." Marcus offers to trade the diamond for a tray of fountain pens, then balks because the pens appear to be ''too yellow." Moe says, "So are canary birds, but who's afraid of canary birds? Well?" The trade completed, Marcus remarks that the weather is ''darker than one of these here epileptic days," drifts on to trade the fountain pens to his friend Meyer Cohen. Offered a camera, Marcus declaims: "I am full of the devil today...
...weather is warm...
...present the only drawback to the general use of the radio balloon in place of the airplane is the expense of the apparatus, which, when sent up from Blue Hill, is usually blown out to sea and lost. The average cost of the balloons, weather and radio equipment, and batteries, for one complete unit is about $40, while the average charge to charter a plane for one weather flight...
...flight began immediately after the regular weather airplane run from the Boston airport, which reported a temperature of 9 below zero Fahrenheit at a height of 17,000 feet, as high as the plane went...