Word: aire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What worried Londoners more than anything else last week was the fact that the British Isles went back on winter time and on that day came a 4:30 p.m., instead of a 5:30 p.m., blackout. That produced plenty of grumbling about stale air inside shuttered offices and renewed demands that the blackout be modified. Blackout grumbling caused London's first sizable wartime strike. Four hundred fifty trolley busmen refused to work until their schedules during blackouts were eased. By & large, however, life in England after two months was adjusted to wartime conditions...
...Moslems), of which he is permanent president. Tall, slim, aquiline of feature and grey of hair, an immaculate dresser, an adroit lawyer, reserved yet with plenty of charm behind the tap when he chooses to turn it on, he has the enthusiasm of a youngster at 63, and the air of a queen's courtier in law courts...
...night scene showing long, slim, spindle-shaped pillars of fire apparently streaming into the sky was last week turned up by Scientific American. Taken by an amateur photographer at Wilbur, Wash., it was a picture of the meteorological phenomenon called "pillar halos." One authority on the physics of the air, Dr. William Jackson Humphreys of the U. S. Weather Bureau, pronounced it the best picture of pillar halos he had ever seen...
...from it. Dust from "chat" piles, according to the Kansas State Board of Health, is a potential menace to all Tri-State inhabitants. Only ways to prevent silicosis in the mines are to wet down the "working faces" and muck piles of zinc, ventilate the mines with fresh air, provide gas masks for the miners. Since the U. S. Bureau of Mines made a special study of the Tri-State sore spot 25 years ago, the report admits, the better mining companies have done much to improve silicosis precautions. But "wetting down," particularly in smaller mines, is not enforced...
...prevention of tuberculosis, which spreads like wildfire through the ramshackle huts. "As a result of overcrowded living conditions it is not unusual for a silicotic father, infected with tuberculosis, to share the same room or even the same bed with his children, even though he is continually showering the air with germs when he coughs." The miners, who are 90% native-born, live in the most abysmal ignorance of the nature of their disease. One tried to check his silicosis by giving up chewing tobacco. Another said: "It's the likker that gits 'em down. When that alkeehol...