Word: blizzards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Will Rogers flew across the continent, landed in Newark during a blizzard. It was the day after the U. S. Army began to fly the mails. Mr. Rogers paid tribute in his daily syndication to the courage of the Army pilot who, although new to the job, that day flew mail over the same route through the same blizzard. Five days later, seated in the Waldorf-Astoria, Will Rogers commented to newshawks on the wreck of a United Air Lines plane in Utah: "Grand feller, that Lloyd Anderson. I'd flown with him several times and with...
...office of the United States Weather Bureau, can trace the path of a storm with surprising accuracy but is forced to confess ignorance when asked why this winter has been so unusually severe. However, it is interesting to delve into the history of an individual storm such as the blizzard which has plagued Bostonians yesterday and today...
...batteries. With a huge glop the Chelyuskin followed the chief steward to the bottom. Even before they set up their tents, the Russians radioed the bad news out. From North Cape, Siberia, 155 mi. away, 60 dog teams mushed off to Professor Schmidt's aid through a screaming blizzard. Rescue planes waited in their hangars for the blizzard's end. Next day, snug on his ice floe, Professor Schmidt told the world: "The sky cleared last night and we took bearings from the stars. We are 130 kilometers [81 mi.] from land. All are healthy and full...
...postal duty was ferrying a Douglas bomber to the Army's western airmail base. He got lost in the Idaho badlands, crashed and burned to death near Jerome. Same day two more reserve pilots were delivering a plane to the western base when they ran into a blizzard near Salt Lake City. Ice coated the ship, bore it down out of control. So inaccessible was the spot in which they died that the pilots' bodies had to be brought away in a sleigh...
...blizzard, however, benefited some dozen students who earned some money shovelling snow. Cambridge residents, through the medium of the Student Employment Office, engaged men of the University to clear the pavement about their homes. The number of men given work of this nature by the Employment Office was limited, in order that each student might receive a worthwhile...