Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whittier Weather...
...Port of Whittier [Feb. 21], with its excellent facilities, adverse weather, close proximity to Anchorage and the possible low price of $800,000, seems to me to be a ready-made nerve center for Arctic exploration. The National Science Foundation should certainly investigate this possibility...
...weather has been just about as warm in Hanover as in Cambridge recently, and the snow has begun to melt on the courses. Dartmouth has hauled snow in by truck from the surrounding countryside, however, and the tracks should be covered, if somewhat wet, for the races...
Died. Joseph Armand Bombardier, 56, inventor of the Snowmobile, a Quebec auto mechanic who devised the tracked rough-weather vehicle in 1937, went on to build ten to 15 versions for such snowbound types as South Pole Explorer Edmund Hillary, the U.S., Canadian and Russian armies; of cancer; in Sherbrooke...
...main disadvantage is the weather. During summers the place is drenched by interminable rains (160 inches annually); in winter the temperature rarely drops below 0° F., but a year's snowfall has been measured at more than 70 ft. Winter winds blow a steady 80 m.p.h., with gusts hitting 135 m.p.h. Servicemen there rarely went outdoors in the winter without good reason. Indoors could be unnerving too, since the region is subject to frequent earth tremors...