Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In several recent issues you have given accounts of people struck by lightning on the golf course or other places in the open [TIME, Aug. 15, 22]. Are there records of automobiles ever having been struck by lightning, and does the movement of the car affect its chances of being hit? What danger would there be to the occupants? I think the answer to this question might be of general interest...
...lightning are rare. Says an international authority on thunderstorms, Sir George Clarke Simpson, Director of the British Meteorological Office, people riding in an automobile with an all-steel top are practically immune from lightning, even though the automobile itself may be struck. The movement of the car does not affect its chances of being hit. Safe rule in a thunderstorm: drive slowly...
...Bureau of Agricultural Engineering dispatched an investigator to look over the Wurtele harvester, would venture no comment whatever as to its practicability pending his report. If the machine should prove practical and come into widespread use, it would affect mainly the labor economy of Florida and Louisiana, which between them account for almost all the raw cane sugar (400,000 tons last year) raised in the U.S. proper...
...remark Mr. Morgenthau hit two nails upon the head: 1) The nervousness of people with money had just produced the sharpest break in the stock-market since last spring, commodity prices were fluttering, and throughout the nation businessmen were absorbed with one question-how would a major European war affect U. S. business? (Even if no war came at once, it was clear that the threat was likely to remain.) 2) How the U. S. was affected in 1914 is a matter of record. But since then there have been several enormous shifts in the status...
...harmonic analysis makes it possible to measure the varying speed at different points in a wind tunnel, to plot these speeds on a graph and reduce complicated wind motions to a series of simple, understandable oscillations. Thus mathematicians hope to predict how the shape of an airplane wing will affect the motion of the wind. Next practical step would be designing of a wing for more speed, safety, lift. Application of the "ergodic" theorem has proved very useful, said Dr. Wiener, rushing into a mass of detail so abstruse that not all his colleagues could understand him. Many unsolved problems...