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...naval subscribers have sent us change-of-address notifications naming 585 ships being transferred from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The names of all TIME subscribers were looked up and changed over. And when a Navy task force came to the East Coast to celebrate Navy Day, a small blizzard of address changes hit our offices from this one operation alone...
...Pointing out that the presidential C-54 has greater power, range and operating ceiling than ordinary commercial airliners, Colonel Myers said the flight was "routine," that he was amazed at the adverse comment. But the critics, knowing that some pilots would gladly try flying the Hump in a blizzard just for the hell of it, were not silenced...
...then the staggering railroads in the east and middle west were knocked to their knees by the heaviest burden of all: a record-breaking blizzard (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The New York Central's Gardenville yards, a key point just outside of Buffalo, were buried under five feet of snow. In one day, only two freight trains managed to pull out of Gardenville, which normally handles 50 to 60 trains a day. At sidings throughout the north and east, tired, cursing railroadmen struggled to throw switches half covered with snow and ice, kept on the job 16 hours...
...last weekend's competition at Franconia, N.H., semi-official opening of the New England season, the weather cooperated none too well. A near blizzard set in. At other spots, with only a. sprinkling of new snow on a frozen crust, conditions were poor to fair, but ski-hungry folk flocked to the hills anyhow...
...atom bomb). Many letters hit us hard, and sometimes we reciprocate-not always by mail. For example: a University of Shanghai professor wrote in recently to thank us for a large map of Manchuria which hit him on the head outside the TIME & LIFE Building during the blizzard of paper that marked the peak of the V-J Day festivities...