Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat. When he left his air-cooled railroad car at Glasgow, Mont, to drive 30 dusty miles to the Fort Peck Dam and address 10,000 people, the thermometer stood at 112° in the sun. At Devils Lake, N. Dak., before 9 in the morning while the crowd waited for him to leave the train, three people fainted from the heat. Later in the day as he spoke to 25,000 people with a sultry thundercloud overhead, the perspiration ran in streams down his dusty cheeks. At Rochester, Minn., when he spoke at the presentation of a tablet...
TIME of July 30, under the title "Not Viable," states that had Labor cut off utilities?light, heat, water, news, telephones?it would have had a "frantic San Francisco by the throat." TIME should study the history of San Francisco before making such a statement...
...rain began to fall, breaking the long heat wave (see p. 9), the body of John Dillinger was lowered into a grave beside that of his mother. Mr. Fillmore intoned: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. . . ." The dirt was shovelled...
...Brown was afraid of rain, which is likely to turn exposed fossils into meaningless brown powder. In sizzling heat that reached a 140° peak, the diggers dug drainage ditches, got tarpaulins and blankets ready, rushed work on a seven-mile road to the main highway...
Statistically the biggest unknown factor last week was Russia, world's largest wheat-grower. Careless harvesting methods cost Russia nearly a quarter of her last year's crop. This year spring heat waves ripened the southern fields early, forcing peasants to harvest by night under the glare of electric lamps. Best estimates were that the total crop would be 700,000,000 bu., 30% less than last year. Several million bushels have already been imported from Argentina and Australia to Vladivostok to feed Russian troops concentrated in East Siberia...