Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another cold weather problem, the explanation of why it is that plants growing under apparently similar conditions and close together respond differently to the effects of a severely cold winter, has been solved at the Arboretum, Professor Ames said. Temperatures were recorded from autumn until spring at selected points in the Arboretum and it was found that variations of as much as twelve degrees Fahenheit occurred in adjacent at the same hour, showing clearly why plants growing in these various spots were differently affected by the weather...
...last week, a 31-year-old millionaire named Howard Hughes was eating a combination breakfast and luncheon in Los Angeles. To this oilman-cineman-aviator came a telephone report that weather was fine all the way across the continent. Cramming a last mouthful Howard Hughes dashed out to Burbank, where for three days a stock model Northrop "Gamma" with a special engine had been waiting with 700 gallons of gasoline aboard. Stopping neither to get food nor to tell anyone but his timer that he was out to add the transcontinental non stop record to the world landplane speed mark...
...Pilot Hughes immediately climbed. There he leveled off, tried to get a radio bearing, discovered his antennae had torn away in the takeoff. Nonetheless, he dashed on at 225 m.p.h., taking oxygen every five minutes. After an hour, as he whizzed over the Colorado River into Arizona, thick weather shut in around him, forced him to fly blind. Climbing another 3,000 ft., he found smoother air, came out into the clear over Santa Fe as his third hour ended. Hour later, he met night rolling in over Kansas...
...from Newark Airport one noon last week climbed The Southerner, American Airlines' crack transcontinental transport. Southward it flew through perfect flying weather, halting briefly for passengers at Philadelphia, Washington, Nashville. Aboard the 11-ton, twin-motored Douglas was W. R. Dyess, WPAdministrator for Arkansas, on the way home. Partners W. S. Hardwick and David A. Chernus, engineers, and wealthy young Frank C. Hart, head of Hartol Products Corp., were making business trips. Young Charles Altschul, nephew of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, amused himself by experimenting with his new candid camera. Mrs. Samuel Horovitz of Boston...
...Pilot Marshall radioed that all was well, the weather clear, the plane at 3,000 ft. Half hour later, with no further word, Memphis began calling, got no answer. Soon Little Rock reported The Southerner overdue. Frantically alarmed, American Airlines launched a search. Before it discovered anything, a farmer telephoned shocking news in from the hamlet of Goodwin...