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...weather.* Said the BBC newscaster to folks at home & abroad: "We have been having the coldest spell for 46 years. Actually, it began a fortnight before Christmas. . . . London one day had 25 degrees of frost. The Thames was frozen over . . . from Teddington to Sunbury. Ice on London's reservoir was twelve inches thick, and there was skating all over the place. . . . People who were allowed to have a normal supply of water gave the hospitality of their bathrooms to their friends. It is still cold today. We can't say any more about the weather now, but perhaps...
Fortnight ago a bandy-legged Billiken with a massive gargoyle head, a nose like a Bartlett pear, ham hands and fiddle-case feet, popped out of Central Park woods in Manhattan and loped off around the reservoir in a tiger-cat trot. Manhattanites who brisk around the reservoir in wintry weather are generally game guys, but one gander at this interloper was enough to send some skedaddling...
...United States without recourse to the type of borrowing that became essential [last time]. . . . Our expenditures in the United States can be controlled within the limits of our available and accruing dollar balances. For some time, if at all, it should be unnecessary to call on [Britain's] reservoir of American securities which have been mobilized [estimated at $1,100,000,000], for the traffic in them can be only one-way traffic...
Purpose of government sponsorship of the instruction, conducted in cooperation with universities throughout the country, is to stimulate the growth of private flying, and to provide a reservoir of trained pilots for the national defense...
...goal of the government program, which is being conducted in cooperation with colleges and universities throughout the country, is to stimulate the growth of private flying, and to provide a reservoir of trained pilots to strengthen the national defense in case of emergency...