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Show Army Weathermen As the ueather plays a vital role in tear, Uncle Sam is taking steps to insure a supply of weathermen as a defense measure. At the department of meteorology in A'eto York university thirty college col-lege graduates are learning the art of "doping out" the weather before becoming members of our armed forces. Part of the training train-ing consists in operating a iceather station on a 21-hour basis. f;i . lfi - y hi CORN ON THE COP . . . John Quigley, chief cop and campus guard at the university, telling the young tveather experts that he'll back his corn against all their gadgets as tveather forecaster. fs.-.j w.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. - yCTW-mKvwmmK: Kgom-.-? HIGHBOY . . . The gentleman atop the pole is adjusting the cup anemometer and ivind 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 ivith the theodolite, and observations ob-servations are taken and recorded. i'Cdh nf fir ?M r ' : Mr. ' 7- 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. Aou) youll have to take the prof s word for this. He is explaining explain-ing the equations of motions of atmosphere to the class. If we knew more about it wed tell you, or become a weatherman ourself. i, K-- . ? |