The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men, by

Francis William Rolt-Wheeler

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Title: The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men

Author: Francis William Rolt-Wheeler

Release Date: July 26, 2007 [eBook #22156]

Language: English

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U. S. Service Series.

THE BOY WITH THE U. S. WEATHER MEN

FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER

With Seventy-two Illustrations from Photographs

[Illustration: Publisher's logo]

Boston Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.

[Illustration: THE FUNNEL OF DEATH.

Photograph of a tornado in Kansas, taken less than a minute before it struck the point where the camera had stood.

(This is one of the best tornado photographs in the world and has not been retouched.)

Courtesy of Geo. S. Bliss, U.S. Weather Bureau, Philadelphia, Pa.]

Published, September, 1917

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