Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Touchy and resentful of U.S. aid, the Libyans are nevertheless trying to wangle more of it. The U.S. has a lease until 1971 on Wheelus Air Force Base, where under ideal weather conditions shrieking F-IOI and F-102 jet fighters land and take off in flocks of 500 a day. But the U.S. has to listen if the King's ministers want to renegotiate. For the use of Wheelus, the U.S. paid an initial sum of $7,000,000 and 24,000 tons of wheat, agreed to an annual $4,000,000 rental until...
...trim it flat-you need a nice little cup in it''). He gave a captain's cold advice on picking a crew ("Don't have a light-hearted comedian as a member of a serious racing crew"). He even talked about the weather ("Squalls from the northwest blow longest and hardest...
...United States Weather Bureau has taken over routine weather observations at the University's Blue Hill Observatory in Milton, leaving the observatory staff free to conduct basic weather research...
Maintaining weather records which have been kept at the station for many years, the Bureau will make observations of temperature, rainfall, wind velocity and so forth...
Last week the Weather Bureau was readying an array of new gadgets to track a storm like a beagle after a bunny. Stimulated by the many reports of large flocks of birds trapped in the eye of a hurricane, unable to escape against the strong winds blowing toward its center, the Weather Bureau has devised a balloon that keeps itself floating in air of a specified barometric pressure. Released from a hurricane-scouting aircraft, it should follow along at a constant barometric pressure, trapped in the eye like the birds, broadcasting radio signals that tell the hurricane watchers how fast...