Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skiing Snow in. Bartlett, N.H. Fair Good 21 Powder Brookline, N.H. N.H. Fair Good 14 Powder Cansan, N.H. Fair Good 19 14 over 5 unb. cr. Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Fair Good 67 5 inch new powder Conway, N.H. Fair Good 18 Powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Cloudy Good 15 4 New Powder Franconia Notch, N.H. Fair Good 48 5 inch new powder Fryeburg, N.H. Fair Good 23 Dry Powder Greenfield, N.H. Fair Good 12 4 inch powder Intervale, N.H. Fair Good 19 Powder Jackson, N.H. Fair Good 20 Powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Fair Good 21 4 Dry over powder Lancaster...
...outbreak of the World War, Britain found that thousands of her skilled workers had flocked to the army, leaving raw youngsters to work the vital industries at home. Before the next war, Britain is determined to separate the cannon fodder from the needed workers. Out of a working population of 15,000,000 some 7,000,000 were listed by the Government as employed in "essential" jobs, exempt from voluntary defense duties, and, by implication, from draft. These included some whose possible wartime duties puzzled many Britons: floorwalkers, bulb growers, bookstall attendants, piano polishers, paper hangers, trade-union officials, executives...
...development will cost about $500,000, of which nearly $250,000 will be needed for the tramway alone. The cars will be operated similarly to the Cannon Mountain system at Franconia...
Skiing Snow in. Bartlett, N.H. Cloudy Good 13 Powder Canaan, N.H. Cloudy Fair 7 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Snowing Good 46 New powder Conway, N.H. Cloudy Fair 13 Powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Snowing Good 5 Franconia Notch, N.H. Snowing Good 29 New powder Fryeburg, Mc. Cloudy Good 13 7 in. powder Greenfield, Mass. Fair Fair Light snow Intervale, N.H. Cloudy Good 14 in. powder Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Good 14 in. powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Cloudy Fair 4 to 13 in. in trails Lancaster, N.H. Cloudy Good 12 5 in. dry over crust Lincoln, N.H. Snowing Good...
...Battle for Cata lonia was the greatest military engagement since the World War. Although the number of soldiers was far less than that on the Western front in 1914-18, the Rebel concentration of artillery was as great as that used by the Germans at Verdun- about one cannon to every ten yards. In the northern sector of the offensive, near Balaguer. Generalissimo Franco's troops pounded the enemy with a fierce artillery barrage, then bombarded the Loyalists from the air, then attacked with from 100 to 150 tanks. Finally his infantry moved...