Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down South, Atlanta was decked with the soft pink bloom of magnolia, the white tracery of "breath-of-spring" shrubs, the yellow islands of jonquils in deep green grass. Hopeful fishermen ringed Atlanta's Piedmont Park Lake; but they never caught anything. On farms, fresh-turned furrows lay brick-red in the sun; farmers planting corn, cotton and peanuts shouted at their mules...
...Buffalo, there was still ten inches of ice on Lake Erie. In the bay at Marquette, on Lake Superior, there was still broken ice. But off Toledo there was no ice visible within 20 miles of shore, and the St. Clair River from Lake Huron was clear of ice as far as Algonac...
With her steam-plumed whistle barking, the low, trim Lake tanker Paratex moved down Toledo's Maumee River, cleared Cedar Point, and pushed her blunt bow towards Detroit. The Great Lakes shipping season was open-a month ahead of time on Lake Erie, but none too early. For this year all records must be broken...
...Lakes fleet of 750 vessels will be ready, with crews signed on, bunkers filled, provisions aboard, and steam up when the ice breaks up at Duluth, at the Soo, at Cleveland, at Buffalo. Between that date and early December, the 300-odd U.S. and Canadian ore boats will have to move more ore than was ever before thought possible. They will have to carry 90 million tons, or better-mostly from Duluth and Superior to the lower Lake ports-750-1,000 miles by water. Last year they carried 80 million tons (20% more than the previous record...
...When Nelson took over, OPM's power section had been trying for six months to get power lines into a plant abuilding at Lake Catherine, Ark., which will turn out 65,000 tons of aluminum a year. Nelson told his man Cliff Hill to get it done. That afternoon the order went out to the Rural Electrification Administration, while private power men and Congressmen squawked...