Word: coldest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other economic figures released last week looked like a collection of statistics from the depths of a recession-but they were for January, the coldest month in 177 years in the eastern two-thirds of the nation. Exports fell almost $1.7 billion below imports, the worst one-month trade deficit ever: shippers could not get export goods out through frozen ports, and more oil had to be imported to keep homes warm. The index of leading indicators-those figures that usually foretell the course of the economy-dropped 1.2%, and factory orders fell 2.1%. The figures, says one Government analyst...
...National Weather Service last week made it official. After consulting informal temperature records kept by such oldtimers as Thomas Jefferson, Henry Thoreau and Noah Webster, the service announced that January in the eastern two-thirds of the country was the coldest month in 177 years. If temperatures through March run only moderately below normal, said the weathermen, the nation will have a true Bicentennial winter: the most shivery since the founding of the Republic...
National weather experts made it official last week: January was the coldest month in the Middle West and Northeast since the Federal Government began collecting such statistics in 1870. Though temperatures moderated during the week, forecasters dashed hopes that the winter had spent its fury. They detected another cold air mass poised to strike the East Coast. TIME correspondents took a closer look at three widely separated areas in which the topsy-turvy winter has created contrasting effects. New York's Marion Knox examined snow-buried Buffalo, Atlanta's Rudolph Rauch checked the frostbitten citrus groves of central...
...continuing cold deepened the nation's energy crisis and increased the already high economic losses (see following story) caused by a winter that could well become the coldest on record in the U.S. The number of states declaring an emergency because of the cold rose to eight* as natural-gas supplies dwindled, electricity consumption remained high and the abnormal weather disrupted crops and commerce...
...hardest-hit state of all -ordered the National Guard to stand by and asked the Defense Department to provide air cargo planes to deliver oil to emergency centers. He also called a capitol prayer meeting in Columbus to seek divine assistance in finding "the strength to endure the coldest days of our time...