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...Patterson put his pilots to work testing the DC-6. In four months they flew it 1,520 hours. They flew it at 25,000 feet to test the pressurized cabin; they flew it into a sleet storm so bad that a following DC-4 had to turn back. The DC-6, with its new anti-icing equipment (heated pipes along the leading edges of wings, tail and windshield), went right on through. Three weeks ago, Pat Patterson and about 40 officials and pressmen climbed into a DC-6 in Los Angeles, flew nonstop to New York...
...hard ice. There is a tradition that on March 17 Saint Patrick turns "the stone warm side up" to make the soft, drying west wind blow over Ireland. Two days before the Saint's day, a thaw came, but with it a ten-hour fall of rain and sleet. Ireland's rivers boiled in swollen anger, flooding the lush valleys in Meath, Carlow, Athlone, Cork and Wexford. In Kilkenny town the floods were the worst in living memory...
...Chicago, will next swing through the South) on a financial shoestring. The company left China with only $37,500 in cash and props, is now down to a daily food allotment of $3 apiece-in Manhattan. The one-night Broadway stand did not up the kitty much: a heavy sleet storm kept the house down. But those who came stayed awake...
...warm and icy air rushed together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...
...TIME By one whom rain nor snow nor sleet...