Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey. Last week a huge low-pressure centre, heavy with moisture from the Gulf, formed over Texas, moved slowly northeast over the Appalachian Highlands. The moisture cooled, fell in torrents on a land just emerging from one of its severest winters on record. Its hillsides were blanketed with wet snow, its streams and rivers jammed with thawing ice. The soil was deep-frozen, rock-hard. . The melting rains coursed off the Appalachian hillsides as if they had been sloping tin roofs. Monstrously gorged rivers roared like millraces, burst their narrow channels. From Maine to Kentucky a vast, swirling chaos enveloped...
...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...
After 21 hours Senator Borah, who can not sleep well on trains and will not fly, completed a long detour around Pennsylvania's floods, detrained wearily at Youngstown, Ohio. There were seven inches of snow. There were 75 greeters to meet him. There was a room in Youngstown's second-best hotel. There was a dinner of Young Republicans, attended by about half the expected number of guests. There was a police escort. There was a speech in Stambaugh Auditorium...
Ohio Gun. As the opening gun of the Borah campaign in the Ohio primary (May 12), the Youngstown meeting was important if not very inspiring. Snow kept away several hundred reserved-seat holders. Instead of the 4,500 people expected, 2,400 were in the audience. Worse still, Candidate Borah was in need of the night's rest he had lost on the train. Final damper was the Machine Age. Like many another politician, Senator Borah has accepted the adage that modern campaign is a duel by radio. In one of his first major radio trials, in Brooklyn last...
...morning last week scientists, foremen and loyal workmen at Corning (N. Y.) Glass Works looked anxiously up at a grey, wintry sky, hoped the threat of snow would not materialize, for momentous and delicate doings were on foot. The snow held...