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...began in silence. At 4 o'clock one morning a drizzle started in a big section of the Texas Panhandle. There was no wind. The temperature hovered at the freezing point, barely above, barely below. Fog, rain & sleet froze on trees and telephone wires. By noon trees in Amarillo were groaning with the weight of ice on their limbs. By midnight three-fourths of the town's telephone circuits were useless. By 1:30 the next afternoon the power lines were down. Western Union lost 800 poles, 2,000 crossarms, had 100,000 wire breaks. In Amarillo...
...Tulsa Mr. Willkie drew a tremendous crowd (40,000); at Amarillo, 10,000 hospitable, curious Texans listened lukewarmly to his appeal that they exchange their 80-year-old tradition of voting the straight Democratic ticket for the 160-year-old No-Third-Term tradition...
...thing was strangely missing: one issue which by all historical precedents should have loomed large if not largest in the campaign was at least half-forgotten. At Amarillo, Tex. last week and at Sacramento, Calif. Candidate Willkie told Democrats they had to choose between the tradition of voting for their party and the tradition against a third term. But the low ebb of public attention to the third-term issue was exemplified by hearings held in Washington on Senator Burke's proposed Constitutional amendment for a single, six-year Presidential term: so meagre was the audience that the hearings...
Johnson is managing editor of the Amarillo, Texas, Daily News. Davis is a feature writer for the New York Times, working chiefly on scientific articles for the Sunday magazine and the news review of the week. Kendrick is a news reviewer and book editor on the Philadelphia Inquirer, and for the past three years has been writing an interpretive review of the week's foreign news for the Sunday Inquirer...
...decision three weeks ago permitting 804-mile Colorado & Southern Railway, which operates from Orin, Wyo. to Texline on the Texas border by way of Denver, to lease 902-mile Fort Worth & Denver City Railway, which runs from Dallas to Texline via Fort Worth, Wichita Falls and Amarillo. Big Burlington Lines control C. & S., which controls F. W. & D. C. Reason for the move was an estimated saving of $250,000 yearly by joint operation. But it meant the removal of F. W. & D. C.'s general offices from Fort Worth to Denver...