Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chapel and the new portion of Adams House, an unusual kind of material is being used in the windows until the glass can be put in. Instead of the customary cheese-cloth, a material made of cellophane reinforced with burlap is in use to keep out the rain and snow, and make the buildings canier to heat during the process of construction. It is similar to the material used in shipping coffee from South American ports...
...recently reorganized into three separate departments?Heavy Industry, Light Industry and Lumber (TIME, Jan. 18). Commissar Liubimov will have the stupendous task of providing Russia's 147,000,000 people with three times as much food & clothing, three times as many farm implements, sewing needles, pens & pencils, milk pails, snow shovels, galoshes, brooms, beds, pots & pans, kettles, knives & forks, window
...people facing conquest. Chiang Kai-shek is ready to tell Japan to go as far as she likes." But General Chiang, with his Cantonese enemies out of the way, once more had the government ready to move when he pulled the strings. Wrote New York Sun Correspondent Edgar Snow: "Chiang Kai-shek . . . has executed one of the most adroit political intrigues ever witnessed in China...
...Astonished Norwegians mopped their faces and unbuttoned their sweaters, too polite to mention the weather. The Swedes, disconsolate, nibbled brown beans, salt herring, oatmeal and knackebrod which they had carried all the way from Stockholm. An unprecedented thaw at Lake Placid, N. Y., had spoiled the ice, melted the snow, made practice for the Olympic Games, which begin Feb. 4, impossible. Undiscouraged by this dismal turn of events, the Olympic Committee announced the full schedule of events...
When the late plug-hatted, snow- whiskered Col. William D'Alton Mann published Town Topics 30, 40 years ago, he made a straightforward if unpleasant practice of "borrowing" large sums from individuals who did not want unkind things printed about themselves in the gossip sheet. Return of the money customarily was not made or expected, but the pompous colonel had a peculiar means of repayment at his command each Tuesday night when the magazine was being made up. On those nights he presided noisily over the editorial rooms, his lawyer at his elbow, reading and initialing proofs of every item...