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Show Army Weathermen ,4s the weather plays a vital role in war, Uncle Sam is taking steps to insure a supply of weathermen as a defense measure i the department of meteorology in New York university thirty college col-lege graduates are learning the art of "doping out the eainer before becoming members of our armed forces, Part of the ira ing consists in operating a weather station on a 24-hour oasis. CORN ON THE COP . . . John Quigley, chief cop and canipus guard at the university, telling the young weather experts that he U back his corn against all their gadgets as weather forecaster. ' K IlillllilllllilillB HIGHBOY . . . The gentleman atop the pole is adjusting the cup anemometer and wind vane, a device for determining the speed of the wind. Student weathermen taking observations. ob-servations. The balloon has just been released. Its flight is followed fol-lowed with the theodolite, and observations ob-servations are taken and recorded. Jl. 'II1'"IPI Minium nii '"J f" -y Ww i-vi--- n w -A kmaitA. i fc jit & 1ft-. Iaa.. -"ll- Professor A. Spilhaus explains the operation of a radiometeor-ograph radiometeor-ograph to some of the student weathermen. Attached to a balloon, it is sent aloft to ascertain conditions in the upper air. is- j : - " j Now you'll have to take the profs word for this. He is explaining explain-ing the equations of motions of atmosphere to the class. If we knew more about it we'd tell you, or become a weatherman ourself. |