Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather satellite Tiros I (from Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite) went into an almost perfectly circular orbit that will keep its cameras at an efficient picture-taking distance. Its farthermost point of 468 miles from the earth is only 32 miles higher than the low point. The feat of orbital precision, unequaled by either U.S. or Soviet satellites, was accomplished by a special Bell Telephone Laboratories guidance system in the rocket's second stage...
First originating with the Department of Defense, the Tiros project was turned over last year to NASA, which has understandably high hopes for it. Since clouds are the tattletales about weather and weather-to-come, the world's meteorologists have long been desperate for cloud-pattern pictures of the entire earth. A single Tiros cannot keep watch on all the earth's clouds-but seven, orbiting simultaneously, could do the job. When that happens, man may be within range of controlling the weather, which now controls his life...
Every pilot is familiar with ordinary turbulence, which is generally caused by thunderstorms or some other violent weather disturbance in the lower atmosphere. Pilots avoid the worst bumps by dodging the thick clouds in which vertical air currents hide. Radar helps by spotting the veils of rain or hail that mark the violent heart of a storm. But clear air turbulence is invisible both to human eyes and to any known kind of radar...
...managed to weather the squalls of the Depression, but in World War II the company was almost swamped when 1.187,548 tons of its shipping was sunk. It began a 70-ship rebuilding program at the end of the war, branched into other areas of transport, laid the keels for 14 new oil tankers costing some $112 million, bought an aviation subsidiary, British Aviation Services, that last year ferried more than 67,000 cars and 193,000 passengers across-the English Channel...
Leaving Out Gimmicks. Not all builders agree that tight money and the weather are wholly to blame for the industry's ills. Some fear that the housing industry is pricing itself out of the market with elaborate, cost-laden homes that many potential home buyers cannot afford. Says Milton J. Brock Jr., former president of the Southern California Home Builders Association, who has cut prices on his homes by leaving out many built-in gimmicks that the buyer can later install himself: "The main thing is to put the buyer in a house. Every time we try to build...