Word: bermudas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheaper Talk. At a Bermuda conference, the U.S. and the British Empire (which control 81% of the world's cables) agreed to new low rates. Starting April 1, rates will drop to 30? a word for fast cables, 15? for deferred and 10? for night. Under some present rates,* this is a whopping cut. New York-London rates, under an agreed 20? ceiling, were not affected...
...Canada's official definition of "overseas": 1) for the Army-anywhere outside of Canada except in the West Indies, Bermuda or Newfoundland; 2) for the Navy and Air Force-anywhere beyond Canadian or U.S. territorial waters...
Service Resumed. The first passenger vessel from the U.S. since early 1942 nosed its way between the coral reefs that line the channel into Hamilton, Bermuda. She was the Furness, Withy & Cox, Ltd.'s trim, flag-bedecked, 3,500-ton Fort Townsend, carrying 31 passengers and 830 tons of cargo...
...spite of such dry spots, the U.S. Weather Bureau called it the country's fifth wettest July since 1817. It blamed the East Coast's rain on a northward migration (to a point off New York) of the eastern high pressure area, known to weathermen as the "Bermuda high," that usually lies off the Carolinas. That brought southeast winds, dripping with moisture picked up from the hot Gulf Stream and the Caribbean. Annoyed with vagrant Bermuda highs, the New York Times decided that they are "an invention of the devil and should be abolished." But the devil...
...Other Strode books: Timeless Mexico, The Story of Bermuda, Finland Forever...