Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average person's body could be fulfilled by the daily consumption of less than a pound of soft coal. . . . My own advice, however, is: do not attempt a coal diet . . . hogs eat coal and enjoy it, but they also eat rattlesnakes and enjoy those, too."-ED. Planes & Weather...
With advanced modern developments, is it not possible, by scientific instruments, to foretell weather conditions sufficiently in advance to determine whether a passenger flight can be made safely...
...credibly informed that some lines, operating without Government mail subsidies, refuse to carry passengers under unfavorable weather conditions...
Before each flight, all commercial airlines presumably avail themselves of the best meteorological information their own or the Department of Commerce's air weather bureaus can provide. Whether a plane takes off usually depends on a unanimous decision by the line's dispatcher, meteorologist and the pilot, who in any case cannot be sent up against his will. The Department of Commerce controls plane movements to this extent: According to its size and surrounding terrain, every U. S. airport has an arbitrary ceiling, below which no outbound plane may take off, no inbound plane land...
Just before the heavy weather of the post-War depression, Drugman Queeny put out a sea anchor in Britain by buying a half interest in a Welsh concern making phenol (pure carbolic acid). In 1929 Monsanto absorbed Rubber Service Laboratories with a plant in Nitro, W. Va. for producing chemicals used in rubber processing. Same year Monsanto acquired the Buffalo, N. Y. plant of Mathieson Alkali Works and Merrimac Chemical Co. at Everett, Mass., oldest and largest New England manufacturer of heavy chemicals for the textile, paper and tanning industries. Monsanto has lost money in only three years since...