Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winter visited Carolina yesterday and covered the campus with a half-inch blanket of snow for the first time since March 14 of last year...
...thinking and the greatest production dream in U.S. history. It multiplied astronomically impossible figures by five and hoped that each figure would show up as something hard, tangible, useful or deadly: a tank, a gun, a ship, a plane, a truck, a tent, a uniform, a mess kit, a blanket, a parachute, a monkey wrench, a lathe, a screw...
...with all transport agencies overburdened, the rails may gain some immediate advantage from an increase. It will nevertheless cost them traffic later. A blanket increase falls heaviest on high-grade, high-rate freight and on long-distance shippers. The former is the most vulnerable part of railroad business, is best adapted to shipping by truck. The latter are the prime movers in a long-term threat to the railroads: the decentralization of industry toward its supply sources and markets, U.S. regional integration...
...covered with warm air and fog like a blanket-a blanket with a hole in it, for there were the usual December snows in the Colorado Rockies. All U.S. weathermen could say was: "If there is any good explanation for such weather at this time of the year, we'd like to have it." The ancients would not have been at such a loss. They would probably have seen in it an omen of world-shaking events...
Some of the specific requests already received, besides the blanket appeal of the Red Cross for volunteers at 18 Brattle Street, Include a call for someone to instruct sailors in marine Diesel engines of the Cooper-Bessemen type; a tutor in fine arts for a member of the Coast Guard; and students with a knowledge of shorthand, radio, mathematics or physics