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Show Army Weathermen As the weather plays a vital role in war, Uncle Sam is taking steps to insure a supply of weathermen as a defense measure. At the department of meteorology in New 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 weather station on a 24-hour basis. r l..-i : t; . r!?'...! i 1 ? I 4 1 Vf s t ? . 1 -i'i:'Ld M CORN ON THE COP . . . John Quigley, chief cop and campus guard at the university, telling the young weather experts hat he'll back his corn against all their gadgets as weather forecaster. 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 fol-loived fol-loived with the theodolite, and observations ob-servations are taken and recorded. Professor A. Spilliaus explains the operation of a radiomcteor-ograph radiomcteor-ograph to some of the student weathermen. Attached to a balloon, it is sent aloft to ascertain conditions in the upper air. I ' 'si. ' ' i "A f f i Aoiti 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 knrui more about it we'd tell you, or become a weatherman our self. r ' - - f jy :;' :-, . v - " ? T " ? "I J , r " ' : ' ? : ;--,?' f ' ."',. .4 - " . . . ' I .ZU. -AJM, is, ,. .-'.b--.,.. -. . .. - .... -. A , . .jt t. . |