Word: gales
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Wind-whipped blizzards added to the confusion. All over Britain, snow, freeze-ups, floods and gale winds appeared in full fury. The freak week began with the biggest, blackest cloud of smog within London's memory, suddenly enveloping the nation's noontime capital in midnight darkness. Pedestrians scurried for shelter, and one bearded old prophet paraded in front of Croydon Town Hall crying aloud, "The end of the world has come." The thickest snows in eight years covered all British counties except Cornwall, which had instead the worst floods of half a century. The National Automobile Association officially...
...Princeton graduate ('24), Putnam bought his own plane, became so enthusiastic about flying that he formed Chicago & Southern Air Lines in 1934. When C. & S. merged with Delta last year, Putnam tangled with Delta President C. E. Woolman over the lower-echelon jobs given C. & S. executives. ¶ Gale B. ("Gus") Aydelott, 40, became vice president and general manager of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, as such will be the line's top operating boss. He succeeds K. L. Moriarty, who went to work for New York Central President A. E. Perlman, formerly executive vice president...
...Brook to determine her chances of reaching this area. Even it Hazel were to come, the necessary heat and humidity to keep her going would probably be lacking; and instead of a third hurricane, New England would have to content itself with nothing more than a strong gale and heavy rain...
...mile an hour near-gale, blowing the length of the Business School field, determined each team's strategy. As the teams alternately had the wind behind them, they assumed the offensive...
...misty, muggy Washington morning last week, House Speaker Joseph Martin Jr. tucked his shaggy forelock under a soft fedora, put on his new gale coat, shook hands with Vice President Richard Nixon and boarded a chartered airliner. A few minutes later, Dick Nixon climbed into another plane, took his seat and promptly fell asleep. His immediate destination was Columbus; Martin's was Newark. The two top Republican congressional campaigners were off on the first legs of journeys which would carry them the length and breadth of the land before the November elections...