Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slash the President's record Budget, is cutting some impractical corners. Since the legislators find it difficult to pare down the large items, they are trying to whittle away lesser expenditures. These cuts seriously impair the functions of the agencies concerned. While the Post Office won its battle, the Weather Bureau now finds itself in danger. Its request for funds should not be sacrificed to the insignificant savings which would result from such cuts...
...Weather Bureau's budget has been already reduced one million dollars below the last fiscal year, this reduction despite the salary increase ordered last July by the Civil Service Commission. From the present request, the House has now hacked off two and a half million. These funds are vitally needed for increased research, improved reports, better service for aviation, flood warnings, and agriculture data. Professor Brooks, Director of the Blue Hill Observatory, points out rightly that the increased income resulting from these services would more than meet in tax returns the expenditures allotted for them...
...said, "You know these things move on the same principle as a swan--smooth, gliding, graceful. It's the paddles underneath. Some people say we ought to put motors on them, but it wouldn't be the same--vibration you know. The boats are out here every day, weather permitting, until the last Sunday of September ... Lovely weather for swans and all that. Of course, we wouldn't keep them out in a northeaster' or a hurricane. They've never tipped over or sunk, thank...
DALLAS, Tex., April 29--The greatest flood in the history of the Sabine River bore down on cities along that stream, the Weather Bureau said tonight, as scores of other Texas rivers and streams brought creeping destruction to parts of Texas...
Against that welcome news was the prospect that good weather will help produce one of the greatest feed-grain crops ot all time-a depressing addition to the record 43 million-ton carryover from last year. Nevertheless, the soil-bank program has done better than expected in taking corn land out of cultivation. Farmers have withdrawn a total 5,200,000 acres this spring, cutting expected corn acreage by nearly 10%. While the basic problems of oversupply are still far from solved, even the most pessimistic farm economists believe that the farm cycle has ended its downturn, and stabilized...