Word: barometricize
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In last week's storm a great mass of warm, moist, tropical air swept from the lower Mississippi Valley. Cold air was pressing south from Canada, underrunning the warm air drift, creating an area of low barometric pressure that moved from eastern Nebraska through Iowa, western Wisconsin, across western...
Within the last two months the barometric industries (steel, textiles) sprinted ahead on the theory that the start of real fighting in Europe would set off a simultaneous export and defense boom in the U. S. By last week the export boom was out, the defense boom was still in...
* Blood pressure is measured by a sphygmomanometer, a kind of barometer which records in millimeters of mercury the pressure of blood above the prevailing barometric pressure.
Last week Canadian isobars* also disappeared from U. S. weather maps. Although the attitude of Canadian weathermen towards their U. S. collaborators continued warm, their forecastings were cloudy, omitted any mention of barometric pressure. Chief U. S. Weatherman Francis Wilton Reichelderfer was nothing daunted. Said he, U. S. meteorologists have...
*Isobars are lines joining areas which have the same barometric recordings at a given time.