Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even in years when rain- fall levels were far above normal. What we see here is a typical alkali flat, left when melting snow water and spring rains had passed. . . . Without difficulty one can find these in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Indiana wherever one chooses. The skull? Oh, that's a movable 'prop' which comes in handy for photographers who want to touch up their pictures with a bit of the grisly...
...experiment. It developed such inventions of its founder as the mechanism generally used for mid-air refueling and the automatic bomb sight now adopted by the U. S. and Great Britain. In 1933 Inventor Seversky began toying with ambitious- amphibian ideas, produced a plane which could land on snow, water or land. By last year he had developed this chunky, all-metal, single-motored monoplane so well that in it he set a world speed record for amphibians (230.4 m.p.h...
...months of the year Churchill is icebound, snow-laden. Sole reason for making it a port was to reduce Western Canadian wheat-growers' freight rates to Europe. Churchill, at latitude 59°, is no farther from Liverpool than are Montreal and New York, both of which are twice as far from the Saskatchewan wheat fields. For 50 years Canadian wheatmen agitated for a railroad over the frozen muskeg to Churchill. In 1931 they got it, at a cost of some $30,000,000, in the form of a 510 mile spin from The Pas, Manitoba, prime junction...
Vital spot in the civil war remained the snow-capped Guadarrama Mountains that guard Madrid on the north. There armies of 15,000 Loyalists under General Carlos Bernal and 20,000 Fascists under able General Emilio Mola sparred cautiously for the battle that may end the war. Surprise of the week was verification of the astounding story that when Spain's devious José Maria Gil Robles, Catholic reactionary, was Minister of War ten months ago, he and Fascist Generals Franco and Mola prepared for the present civil war by digging secret gun emplacements all along the Guadarrama ridge...
...same farm has been abandoned in the rush to the West: in the deserted fields tiny white pine seedlings are beginning to appear once more. In 1910 nature has restored the white pine forest: a portable sawmill has been set up and logs are being sledged through the snow to the railroad. By 1915 the hillside is once again bare and deserted. Fifteen years later, in Model No. 7, this twice cut-over hillside is again covered with trees but they are of a lean, weedy variety, fit only for cordwood unless drastic silviculture is practiced...