Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swirling storm hit the city, and dumped the third-deepest snowfall in history (19.6 in.) on its streets and rooftops. Parry beamed. In one hour, at the height of the storm, 3½ inches fell. The Weather Bureau predictions (unlike those issued before last December's record-breaking 25.8-in. snowfall) had been uncannily accurate, a fact which enabled the city to keep its streets open, its buses running, its sidewalks passable, and its citizens in such a mild state of discontent that they seemed almost happy...
...After circling over Indio, Calif. since Nov. 20, Endurance Flyers Dick Riedel and Bill Barris discovered that their Aeronca plane's carburetor was icing, were forced to land after spending 568 hours and 47 minutes aloft. The endurance record (set by two Long Beach, Calif. flyers in 1939) still stood at 726 hours...
...which is on record as favoring a good deal of competition among U.S. flag lines on the transocean airlanes, must approve the deal. So must President Truman. The merger is likely to be fought, not only by T.W.A., but by the American Export (steamship) Lines, Inc. American Export started American Overseas in 1937 to buck Pan Am, which was cutting into the line's Mediterranean tourist traffic. As American Export still has a 20% interest in American Overseas, it can wage a strong fight against the merger. American Export's Vice President John Slater has already resigned...
Nobody wrote the "Great War Novel" that everybody has taken for granted ever since V-day. But a few writers did try to record their personal experiences, particularly young (25) Norman Mailer, a Pacific veteran whose The Naked and The Dead, a rugged, stormy first novel, whirled straight to the top of the bestseller list and stayed there. Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions also made a great splash, though with far less literary justification...
...Churchill's stewardship. Best of such U.S. books was Dramatist Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, perhaps too worshipful of both men, but the clearest view yet of the war at the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin level. Overshadowed by these two, but important for the record, were The Memoirs of Cordell Hull and Henry L. Stimson's On Active Service in Peace...