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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...
...Weatherman (St. Louis incarnation) confirmed a lot of people's suspi:ions about him, just as he prepared to go into retirement after 26 years of vexing the public. Chuckled 70-year-old Prognosticator Henry C. Gross: "I often hear people on streetcars cussing me out. I always raise my newspaper in front of my face and laugh about...
Sferic's antenna, revolving like a non stop merry-go-round, seeks out these static signals and relays them to the weatherman as straight-line flashes on the face of the cathode-ray tube. The angular positions of the flashes indicate the di rection the storm is taking. A network of stations taking simultaneous observations of the same flashes can locate their source and spot a storm position in a 2,000-mile radius. One drawback: not all storms stir up enough static...
Feather Weather. In Schenectady, N.Y., Weatherman Morris H. Cohn finally discovered why the city's official temperature was always higher than the U.S. weather bureau - a nestful of sparrows was keeping the recording tube warmed...
Wetting his finger and holding it to the U.S. breeze, New York's aging, ailing Senator Robert F. Wagner, a shrewd weatherman of public opinion, thought the wind last week favored a revised and expanded Social Security bill. Promptly, he introduced one in Congress...