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Article: The weatherman and the millionaire: how Carl-Gustaf Rossby and Harry F. Guggenheim revolutionized aviation and meteorology in America.(Biography)
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- Weatherwise
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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A brilliant powder blue sky fills the screen. A beat of silence then a distant mosquito-like whine quickly amplifies into the unmistakable drone of an old propeller plane. Out of nowhere, an enormous rectangular wing slices across the screen. There is just time enough for a glimpse of the thin-faced, grinning, handsome man in the cockpit and, on the side of the plane, right behind the propeller, in big bold letters: The Spirit of St. Louis.
Cut to the dusty, wintry library of the old Weather Bureau headquarters building on 24th and M Streets in Washington, D.C. A round-faced, elfin young man--a kind of Nordic Mickey Rooney--is making scrawls on a weather map with ...