Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard men and their women wound up the first ice-bound weekend of the year yesterday in a flurry of skids, windburn, and fresh snowflakes...
Routine Rain. On Christmas Day, 1945, President Truman wanted to visit his mother in Grandview, Mo. An all-night downpour of sleet, which had sheathed the Washington airport in ice, turned to murky rain by morning. Hank Myers studied the weather reports. He laid out a flight plan, made his decision. At 12:06, the President's plane, with Harry Truman aboard, lifted into the mist. Nearly six hours later, Myers cushioned the Sacred Cow to a landing at Kansas City airport. When newspapers called the flight foolhardy, Pilot Myers was amazed. "Routine," said...
Mukden is subzero country at this season. A ragged blanket of snow spreads over the surrounding plain; canals and streams are ice. The wind cuts through the warmest clothes. Yet there seemed to be less spiritual desolation in Mukden this week than when I saw it under Russian rule in February 1946, after the Soviet rape of Manchuria's industry. A lot of people can muster a smile now. But nobody could find cause for confidence; the Chinese talked of cold homes, high and rising prices, the failing electricity supply. Seven provincial governors wait to enter provinces which...
That sounded like the old Dali, the spellbinder whose ice-cold art-like his Leda-could sometimes shock and sometimes fascinate, but almost never touch...
Many a trader thought that Washington still did not realize how its loose schedules and loose talk upset the markets. Nor did they think the Administration really understood what thin ice it was skating on. Grain dealers testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee that the foreign relief program may leave the U.S. with a dangerously low grain carryover...