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Endurance. The weather was as somber as the darkest economic forecasts. This week the sun came out brightly for a few hours-for the first time in 22 days. In the 66 years London's Kew Observatory had been keeping tabs, there had never been such a long sunless period. Snow, icy gales and subfreezing temperatures were also out for endurance records. All week long there was frost, without a break. Reported the weatherman: "It's very rare to have continuous frost for more than three days; this sort of thing doesn't happen more than half...
...John Jacob Astor, was out $200-odd. The way the sheriff told it, handsome Sportsman Dick picked up the wrong hitchhikers-three young men who produced a gun, made him drive them all the way from Long Island to Manhattan, took his money and let him go in darkest Harlem...
...immigrant, dictated by himself, set down by his wife, Helen. Today, Helen runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa., and George spends "part of each day at a granite quarry working on an animal figure he designed to commemorate the plight of the world during the darkest days of the German advance...
That was in May 1942, in the darkest hour of the war. General Joseph W. Stilwell had spoken bluntly and honestly; and he was determined to go back to that lost Burma...
...housing scene, the darkest cloud in the future is the day when temporary housing facilities are turned back to the government. This will occur after the present extraordinary demand dwindles, but the University anticipates that many large expenses will be incurred in the process...