Word: gales
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...zero gale was driving needle-sharp snow over Elk Mountain against the tiny station, piling drifts over the main line to Parco. Traffic had stopped. Outside, almost buried, were a giant mallet locomotive and a mountain snowplow. U.P. General Manager William Martin Jeffers was telling the men he knew the job was dangerous but it had to be done. Not one to give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes...
Born. To Actress June Gale, 27, and Musical Know-It-All Oscar Levant (Information Please), 35; their second daughter, Lorna; weight, 6 lb. 10 oz.; in Manhattan...
...then trained cats, one at a time, to lift the lid of the feedbox whenever the light flashed. After the cats were conditioned to associate light with food, he shot a harmless blast of air into the cage at the moment the cat reached for the lid. This gale at mealtime frightened the cats. After repeated frustrations the animals associated the feedbox and signal light with fear. Frustration and the conflict between hunger and fright drove the cats quietly...
...first night the outboard conked out and they nearly swamped trying to row in a gale and rainstorm. Next day they landed and persuaded a Yugoslav carpenter who had once worked in Philadelphia to come along and help them work the boat. For three days and two nights they sailed down the Adriatic, dodging Italian mines and mine layers. Since no one in the boat knew anything about navigation, they steered by the stars in the southern sky, and did not figure out until weeks later why they were headed nearly due west each morning...
...whirled in from the Northwest, gathering strength as it ran. It powdered San Francisco and Los Angeles with their first snow in ten years, trailed a white swath across the Rockies, roared down upon the Middle West in a furious gale. It blotted out roads, stalled trains, buried cars. It was too big, too dangerous for even wartime censors to keep under their hats. U.S. weather bureaus dropped their gags and signaled warnings of the winter's first big storm to farmers, truckers, pilots, linesmen...