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...built a fort of ice and snow. There was another battle. In it, Constable E. Millen died. Police ammunition ran out and the posse withdrew for supplies, leaving three men to watch the fort. In the middle of the night Mad Albert Johnson slipped away again in a blizzard that covered his snowshoe tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death On Porcupine River | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...want to see any dead people." Others whom he directed to the canyon found the smudge to be the bodies of the pilot and seven passengers in the burned wreckage of a Century-Pacific plane. En route from San Francisco to Los Angeles the ship had flown into a blizzard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Parachutes for Passengers? | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

Sleighs jingled merrily through Finland's pine forests, snowplows roared up and down the streets of Helsinki (Helsingfors). In a nationwide, nose-nipping blizzard last week hardy Finns decided by ballot between continuance of Prohibition and inauguration of State Liquor Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Wet Women | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...triumphant trip. Smalltown citizens-especially firemen in full uniform-cheered the team at station after station. Liveliest demonstration occurred at Bristol, whose main street is the State line between Virginia and Tennessee. Citizens escorted Tennessee's most famed back, Eugene Tucker ("Wild Bull," "Bristol Blizzard," "Black Knight") McEver across the platform so he could exchange a word with his parents, then carried him back to the train. When the team arrived in Manhattan, two stowaways were found in the baggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Thermometer mercury scrooched down in its tubes, showed 4° below Zero. Across the bleak Manchurian steppes just south of Tsitsihar snowflakes scudded in a driving blizzard that nipped soldiers' noses, soldiers' ears. Well-publicized Chinese General Ma Chan-shan with 23,000 Chinese troops was about to make his heroic last stand against 3,500 prosaic but efficient Japanese soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHURIA: Rout oj Ma | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

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