Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston & Maine will run two snow trains into New Hampshire and Vermont this week-end, both leaving tomorrow and returning on Sunday...
Canals, railroads and highways throughout the continent froze over or were blocked with drifting snow. Ships in the North and Baltic Seas and English Channel scuttled to port. While adults labored to dig Europe out, and to distribute food, coal and Christmas cheer over damaged communication systems, children were delighted. In London, for the first time in ten years, there was enough snow for snowballs, and at Versailles there was skating on the Grand Canal. Casualties: 200 dead. Most inexcusable casualty: the freezing to death of ten German-Jewish refugees in a camp on the German-Polish border...
...long overdue, widely advertised, win-the-war offensive of Generalissimo Francisco Franco began at dawn one clear, cold day last week in western Catalonia. Hardest fighting took place in the mountainous section near Tremp, where snow was so deep that communications bogged and the temperature was so low that water froze in the cooling jackets of machine guns. A second, lighter attack, believed to be merely a diversion, took place in the flatter country near the Segre River...
During the cold winter of 1717, snow fell steadily for five days in New England, lay five or six feet deep in Boston for a long time. In March 1741, people sleighed from Stratford, Conn. to Long Island across the solidly frozen Sound. In 1779-80, according to Thomas Jefferson, "the Chesapeake Bay was frozen solid from its head to the mouth of the Potomac. At Annapolis the ice was five to seven inches in thickness, quite across...
...visiting from village to village. East of Galatz two holiday trains sped along the winding, single-track line in a blinding storm. Someone had blundered, for they were running head on toward each other. Near Reni they crashed. For hours the dying lay with the dead in the heaping snow while rescue trains ploughed through from Galatz. Late Christmas night the dead were counted at 80, the wounded...