Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things, broke up a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans and drove vacationing President Eisenhower indoors at Thomasville, Ga.-when a violent new storm boiled up off the Louisiana coast. Mixing its Gulf moisture with the cold arctic air, it swept north and east, dumping the season's heaviest snowfall from Jackson, Miss, on up into Maine. Temperatures sank to a bitter subfreezing all along the path, sank lower in its wake...
Good Samaritan. Behind them they left Lincoln gripped in fear. Mothers pulled toddlers indoors, took older children out of school. Neighbors checked in and checked out with each other, paralyzed Lincoln's telephone circuits with the heaviest traffic since V-J day. District court was recessed. Business firms booked downtown hotel rooms for employees who worked late. The governor mobilized National Guardsmen to stand watch at the National Bank of Commerce when reports got around that Starkweather intended to rob it. Sheriff Merle Karnopp called for a posse, and 100 men armed with deer rifles, shotguns and pistols were...
...largest and heaviest of the Army's ballistic weapons, the 69-foot-long, six-feet thick Redstone blasted off into a starry, almost cloudless sky and appeared to make a successful flight...
Businessmen who had worried in May were calm in December. Steelmen sensibly pointed out that the nation's heaviest industry need not always operate at emergency throttle. "The auto industry no doubt could turn out 12 million cars a year if absolutely necessary," said a steel executive. "But when it produces only 6,000,000 cars, no one complains that it is operating at only 50% capacity." At times, businessmen even gave thanks for the breather. Frank Magee, president of Aluminum Co. of America, noting that aluminum has often been in short supply, said cheerfully: "For the first time...
...John's station to wait its turn at Park's Bridge Junction, which Londoners call the "busiest strip of railway line in the world." The electric train's ten coaches were pack-jammed, with more than 1,000 passengers caught up in the confusion of the heaviest pea-souper in two years...