Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communist China faces mass starvation. Bad weather and worse organization had cut the country's agricultural production for the third successive year. The Reds have pledged half a billion dollars worth of their needed foreign exchange to buy grain from Canada and Australia. Millions of Chinese are reportedly suffering from beriberi, and though Communist functionaries have been ruthlessly willing to ignore civilian wants to concentrate on industrialization, reluctant economic planners have now lowered 1961's investment rate and even frozen some scheduled industrial construction until Red China's desperate agricultural crisis can be finally reckoned with...
...stubborn search for an explanation, the bureau keeps a dozen airplanes on duty. Last week its weather squadron was near Oklahoma City, right in Tornado Alley, and whenever thunder threatened, a highflying, camera-laden U2* soared far above the thunderheads. Supersonic jets, laden with instruments, darted through the fringe of the clouds. Even far from the core they bounced suddenly from 75 m.p.h. updrafts to downdrafts moving just as fast. At the center of a storm, winds of 350 m.p.h. were not uncommon...
When the rough riders have flown for a few more years, Weather Bureau experts believe that meteorologists will be able to pick with certainty the specific thunderclouds that will spawn twisters. Next step will be to exercise a sort of birth control over the violent storms, which last year killed 49 people in the U.S. and did at least $50 million worth of damage. No one knows yet how this control can be accomplished, but Bureau Meteorologist Clayton Van Thullenar says: "If we were not dreamers to some extent, we wouldn't be doing this...
...longer flying over Soviet Russia, the famed U2s go quietly about their weather research at bases reaching from Alaska to Australia. Part of their time is presumably spent collecting data from Caribbean storms...
Eliot boats copped both first and second place in yesterday's House crew finals, as defective equipment, weakened by the basin's rough weather, hampered two eights and completely sidelined a third...