Word: weatherman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weatherman Helps...
Sunny but cool is the weatherman's early morning forecast of today's weather. If he should be wrong, Triangle exercises will be conducted in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...question they will be asking is, "What happened last week? Was Rhode Island State loaded or is Harvard just another track team?" And with the weatherman promising sunny skies, and the visitors holding plenty of aces in their hands, the Ivy League scouts should find out this afternoon...
...time in 22 days. In the 66 years London's Kew Observatory had been keeping tabs, there had never been such a long sunless period. Snow, icy gales and subfreezing temperatures were also out for endurance records. All week long there was frost, without a break. Reported the weatherman: "It's very rare to have continuous frost for more than three days; this sort of thing doesn't happen more than half a dozen times in a century...
From then on business boomed. Kahn set up his own shop (Weatherman Co.), took on 80 employes. The U.S. Weather Bureau attested to the gadget's accuracy. Ships Service at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station ordered five gross. Other orders flocked in from as far afield as South Africa, South America, the Far East. At $1.69 apiece, the weather houses grossed $70,000 in 1942, $350,000 the next year, $800,000 last year. Production has reached a rate of 6,500 units...