Word: barometricize
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≫ "Mental instability seems to be influenced by the instability of the weather. . . . With the pressure falling and the temperature rising we are afflicted with a feeling of futility." Statistics of cities lying in stormy areas, such as Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, show that most suicides occur during periods of...
> United Air Lines and Bell Telephone Laboratories also were at work on safety. One afternoon last week United Air Lines' flying laboratory, went up from Newark Airport carrying a new type of altimeter mounted beside a regular barometric altimeter. Up the Hudson River it flew at 800 feet, both...
That was all, but for one day it made a cataclysm in the barometric topography of the U. S. New England suddenly found itself at the bottom of an atmospheric abyss between two great plateaus (see map). The effect would hardly have been much more catastrophic had a new Grand...
Intrigued by his barometric sales figures, Nathaniel Leverone took a suggestion from Treasurer Frank Anderson, decided to make a How's Business survey. He set his minions to interviewing officers of 1,500 leading U.S. plants, by last week their questionnaires had been filled-out by some 700. They...
Best guess, however, seemed to be that the disturbance was a seiche (pronounced saysh)-that is, an oscillation in the water caused by an area of rising barometric pressure adjoining an area of falling pressure. The pressure difference would create a sort of hill and valley in the lake surface...