Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Alice Damrosch Wolfe, ski-minded daughter of famed Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch; and Herman Kiaer, Deputy High Commissioner for Norway to the 1939 New York World's Fair; in Manhattan: she for the third time, he for the first...
Above the Arctic Circle, continuous daylight last week illuminated the last efforts of a haggard, heroic band of Austrian ski troops to hold the one bit of dry land which the Allies have wrested from the Nazi war machine. German airmen tried to strengthen their comrades' failing grip, but massed Allied warships, planes, artillery and foot soldiers on all four sides brought about at last the recapture of snow-clad Narvik, all-but-forgotten Norwegian outlet for Sweden's high-grade iron...
Around Narvik, swift ski patrols dispatched German parachutists almost as fast as they were dropped...
...said the report, had shown abuses, waste of funds, politics in the administering of relief. WPA funds had been used to exterminate rats in New Orleans at $2.97 a rat, to build golf courses for the wealthy, to improve a yacht basin for a yacht club, to construct a ski jump in New Hampshire, to pay the expenses of Deputy WPA Administrator Howard 0. Hunter to Kentucky Derbies, to provide free tea parties and banquets for Government officials and local politicians. At Del Mar, Calif., $521,047 of WPA funds was used to build a race track which was later...
...months. On that basis, WPA will receive almost if not quite as much as it did last year. The report added that Colonel F. C. Harrington, WPA Administrator, was making efforts to improve the agency. Mrs. Easley and Mrs. Greenberg didn't know about the race tracks and ski jumps. All they knew was that there was not quite enough oleomargarine, not quite enough sardines...