Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week an amateur radio operator in Bremerton, Wash., (about 11,000 miles from St. Paul), picked up a garbled message from L'lle Bourbon: "Ran Short Of Coal Due Bad Weather . . . Hope Madagascar Will Send Rescue. . . ." Expecting the worst, the French Government ordered a rescue ship to sail at once from Madagascar...
...munitions salesman, more recently financial angel to Insurgent Spain, hotfooted it out of San Sebastian and went to earth in Biarritz. Señor March's comings & goings-especially goings-in & out of Spain have long been one of the most reliable barometers of the Spanish political weather. When trouble is brewing, Señor March is generally found in neutral territory...
...plenty cold in Europe last week (see p. 10), but gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right-except that the change is too small to be detected except by instruments and statistics in the hands of professional meteorologists. Weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer...
...Weather Bureau assembled all available records covering a century or more, found that they showed a trend towards warmth. In Manhattan, white-thatched James Henry Kimball, famed weather adviser of transatlantic fliers, found that in his territory average annual temperatures rose 2.1° from 1831 to 1900, 1.4° more from 1900 to 1938. Meteorologists do not know whether the present warm trend is likely to last 20 years or 20,000 years...
...Christmas Eve a happy knot of womenfolk on a quay in Halifax had the U. S. Liner American Farmer to thank that their men were home to tell the tale of what happened when heavy weather struck the venturesome Nova Scotian three-master Fieldwood, bound from Hawkesbury, N. S. for Barbados. Two days out the pumps broke down. Water poured in through the racked hull to disable auxiliary engine and radio. Soon the captain, his crew of six and their mascot bulldog, Yummie, were marooned on the deck of the water-logged ship...