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...substantial blanket not only reflects the sun by day, but traps any heat extant in the earth and pavements, depriving the air of warmth. This imprisoned heat is constantly eating away at the bottom of the ice sheet, the Observatory notes, and streams, sewers, and gutters are swelling by the hour...
Lashed to a creamy froth, the skies tumbled a blanket of white on the Eastern Seaboard the day after Christmas. At first it was mistaken for leftover egg-nog, but it was not long before the awful truth dawned upon the quaint villagers of New York and Boston. It was snow. The mold had finally been broken. The awful implications were soon abroad, and within a day the sign of the flying red horse had changed to an off-white. But the effects were even broader; James B. Conant switched to Calvert because he liked its flaky texture; there...
...rolling plain of western Kansas, near Goodland, looked like a tinseled Christmas card last week. Light snow covered the fields, and green shoots of winter wheat made sparkling polka dots in the white blanket. It was a picture to cheer not only farmers but the whole...
This week expanded winter resort facilities started full blast. An average foot of base and up to a two inch blanket of powder made conditions fair to good in most areas. A few regularly scheduled ski trains will be rolling out of the Boston and Maine station loaded with College vacationers this weekend...
Mukden is subzero country at this season. A ragged blanket of snow spreads over the surrounding plain; canals and streams are ice. The wind cuts through the warmest clothes. Yet there seemed to be less spiritual desolation in Mukden this week than when I saw it under Russian rule in February 1946, after the Soviet rape of Manchuria's industry. A lot of people can muster a smile now. But nobody could find cause for confidence; the Chinese talked of cold homes, high and rising prices, the failing electricity supply. Seven provincial governors wait to enter provinces which...