Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mackenzie, 300 miles from its delta, is only 300 miles from the head of navigation of the Yukon." Stern-wheelers have long traveled both rivers, which (claims Stefansson) winter freezes into ice-paved roads for sledge-pulling tractors. During a three or four-week freeze-up in autumn and the breakup in the spring, the rivers are of course impassable to both ships and tractors. Stefansson adds: "A generation that tends to think lazily in terms of railroads, ships and trucks has almost forgotten the value of river highways...
...woman, Autumn 1942 model, will be a smooth number. She will be stripped of all the floating extras and superflous swing that fashion designers can decently take away...
Russia changed the whole picture. There was an immediate economic decline, and a decline in morale came soon thereafter. By autumn both declines had gathered speed. "This, together with the decay of capital equipment, caused a leveling off of war production for the first time in Nazi history, then a steep decline in production." For instance, the production of locomotives in all German Europe dropped to 1,400 yearly; and the Wehrmacht was losing 29 locomotives a day in Russia (i.e., three years' production in the Russian campaign's first six months...
...reports of black markets, except in tires, and these might disappear if there is national gas rationing. There is chiseling on gasoline on the East Coast right now: in many places it is easy to get a full tank any time. But what will happen by autumn, when more goods are rationed, when many disappear entirely...
...Ramirez, Lorenzo Alvary, John Gurney and other artists, conducted by Giuseppe Bamboschek; Victor; 16 sides). This album is a condensed version (excerpts pieced together to make up a half-length score) sung by a second-string cast (virtually the same company which gave 65 Barbers on tour in two autumn seasons). But the excerpts are expertly chosen, skillfully welded; the singing is good; the performance brightly paced; the recording excellent. Net effect: highly satisfactory...