Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fierro, the Sane. Impetuous young Emilio Carranza crashed to death in a New Jersey storm because he was in a hurry to fly back to his bride in Mexico City (TIME, July 23. 1928). Col. Pablo Sidar, "The Madman," laughed at bad weather reports and fell into the Caribbean in an attempted flight from Mexico to Buenos Aires (TIME, May 19). Last week Col. Roberto Fierro, cool, cautious, conservative, after days of patient preparation, took off from Roosevelt Field, L. I. and 16 hr. 35 min. later landed on Valbuena Field, Mexico City-first non-stop flight from New York...
...quiet chat had President Hoover recently with his good and moneyed friend Eugene Meyer Jr. The weather was becoming warm. Mrs. Meyer would perhaps be hastening a trifle her departure to the Meyer country estate. This would leave the Meyer mansion in Washington free to serve as house and home for four days to President-elect Julio Prestes of Brazil who arrived in Washington last week with his gay and handsome son Fernando...
...President Hoover to his Rapidan Camp over the weekend. There they found Mrs. Hoover, convalescing from the injury to her back two months ago. The President caught a 16-in. 2-lb. rainbow trout with a black gnat fly, the season's record for him. Rain and bad weather drove the President and his party back to Washington ahead of time...
...coached by White side, of a row one mile below the bridge. Coach Haines' eights went over the middle two miles of the course at a high stroke, but no time was given. Any times taken during the day of the University and Jayvee crews were also withheld. Good weather prevailed, and rowing conditions were as fine as the oarsmen have had during their two weeks and more in camp...
...Weather hazard in aviation has been overcome by radio to the extent of: 1) warning the pilot of conditions ahead; 2) guiding him to a point above his destination. Yet many an accident has occurred because the airport was obscured by fog. This problem-to land an airplane where the pilot cannot see-has been the subject of extensive experiment with highly sensitized altimeters (TIME, Oct. 7) and with auditory radio signals. Last week in Gloucester, Mass., a new line of attack, by which the pilot "sees" the hidden field, was announced by John Hays Hammond Jr., inventor famed...