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...builder of swift Army bombers; Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, builder of Navy airships and head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's department of mechanical engineering; Dr. Theodor von Karman, famed Hungarian aerodynamicist in charge of aeronautics research at California Tech; Willis Ray Gregg, new No. 1 U. S. Weatherman; Elmer A. Sperry of gyroscope fame and many and many another bigwig. There they were, all day long, chilling their bones and cramping their fundaments in classroom chairs, because it was the second annual meeting of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences. Prior to the business meeting at which Treasurer...
...Weatherman Willis Ray Gregg, born 54 years ago in Phoenix, N. Y. graduated from Cornell in 1903, joined the Weather Bureau next year. He was summoned to Washington headquarters in 1915, made chief of the Aerological Division two years later. Eight years ago he tackled the job of organizing the Bureau's service for commercial airways, has been at it ever since. He makes his debut as Bureau chief this week at the Aeronautical Sciences Institute Convention in Manhattan...
...Weatherman Gregg's predecessor is Charles Frederick Marvin, a softspoken, bushy-browed old gentleman of 75 whose great hobby was the 13-month calendar, whose special aversion is long-range forecasting. He will be retained in an advisory capacity until he completes 50 years of service (end of this year...
...Weatherman Colton's crash made citizens conscious of a new profession. Before airplanes, kites and balloons took weather recording instruments aloft in out-of-the-way places. But kites require wind, balloons not too much wind; both are unusable in bad weather; both have been scrapped except for one kite-station in Ellendale, N. Dak. In July 1931, Weather Bureau stations in Chicago, Cleveland and Dallas let the first U. S. contracts to aviators for weather observation. Omaha and Atlanta have been added to the list. A weather plane goes up once a week in Fairbanks, Alaska...
Near Poughkeepsie, Oscar Widmer, 50, weatherman, spent many evenings wandering, with club and dog, along deserted roads, peeking at couples in parked automobiles. Recently he was hailed to court, charged with opening the door of an automobile belonging to one Thomas Wright, pulling the leg of Mr. Wright's lady companion, "twitting" Mr. Wright, whose companion was Mrs. Wright. Weatherman Widmer's sentence: 30 days...