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...Engineer James Heistand, deliberately took off from Kansas City in the worst possible weather, climbed to 36,000 ft. where they were still not on top of the bad weather. Nor could Tommy reach the top, thus exploding the "overweather" theory for that level at any rate. Flying in sleet without sighting land for seven hours, he finally reached the coast, began to "mush" down through for a landing. His aerial was iced and he could not get a fix on the beam at Newark where the ceiling was very low and where TWA officials were biting their nails...
...took him away from his familiar brush and stubble to the thick pines of Minnesota to hunt grouse. Out of his master's sight one grey afternoon, he was standing on point when a blinding blizzard struck suddenly out of the north, driving the master to cover. Wind, sleet and snow beat down on the old dog, but he, who had never in his life broken a point, refused to do so now. Next morning his master found him, half-buried in a snowdrift, still on point-head high, tail out like a champion, frozen dead...
...running, it was the only reminder they had of heroic Brookfield Dumb-Bell. Thirty-nine of the nation's best bird dogs, one of the biggest entry lists in years, performed in colorless fashion. Experts blamed the poor showing partly on the weather-late winter snow and sleet alternating with blustery spring winds-but also on the seldom-mentioned fact that the Ames Plantation is no longer precisely overrun with quail...
...mountain passes to the north of Madrid, where the improperly trained conscripts of White General Emilio Mola have been brawling with the even more improperly trained Government militia for three months, cold rains turned to sleet, then to snow, choked the mountain passes...
...Golden Triangle" formed by the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers as they join to form the Ohio stand the skyscrapers, department stores, theatres and hotels of Pittsburgh's business district. At first, as the rivers swelled after 24 hours of pelting snow, sleet and rain, the city was vastly alarmed by a prediction that the water-level at their junction might rise as high as 34 ft.-close to the record set by the disastrous flood of 1907. Twenty-four hours later the junction stood at an all-time high of 48 ft., and in the Golden Triangle a swimmer...