Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since his elevation from SEC, Bill Douglas has been by no means inaccessible to his friend, Jerry Frank, now running that agency, to Janizary Tom Corcoran, and to the President himself. His week-end cruise with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins last month was probably less to discuss the weather or jurisprudence than matters that make sense...
...iron makers have tried for years to turn out a uniform quality iron. Till now this has depended on the varying accuracy with which blast furnace attendants, watching the flame through peepholes, regulate the forced flow of air whose moisture was at the mercy of the weather. With the new Carrier outfit, already proved experimentally, no flame regulation will be necessary; it can condense an average of some 20 tons of water out of Birmingham Valley's smoky atmosphere daily, feed air of constant low humidity into the furnace. If successful, the new air-conditioning trick will remove...
Having carcened through the Wlash Sweezy storm, Harvard's chief executive has not wasted much time in dry dock before heading again for heavy weather. President Conant has just fired ten assistant professors. For the benefit of the national press services, let us hasten to add that he has not really "fired" them; he has converted their present contracts into terminating appointments. Of course he has a reason his personal interpretation of the Committee of Eight's report...
...people saw Blue Peter win the Derby; cars were leaving London at the rate of 48,000 an hour; railroads put on 2,500 special trains for Whitsunday; a ?5.000,000 South African loan was subscribed in 15 minutes; unemployment had decreased by 395,000 since February. In weather so exceptional the Derby was called Heatwave Derby, all young men between 20 and 21 registered for the draft, and labor's periodic stirring, signalized by recent rent strikes that involved 40,000 in Birmingham, grew as it grows each spring...
Cellophane leggings for women to keep their stockings dry in wet weather...