Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...senseless detour, was routed direct. En route he dictated his impressions for transmission later to the State Department, cracked jokes and told Washington yarns in the vein of his good friend Jim Farley. Every winter since anyone can remember the Five-Year Plans, it has happened at Rostov that "snow is delaying car loadings." Last week there was about an inch of snow on the ground and sure enough car loadings were delayed, with costly Soviet farm machinery deteriorating in the open just after being efficiently completed inside...
...week and the U. S. correspondents were shown no trace of the "sabotage and wrecking by Trotskyists" attributed by the Old Bolsheviks trial to Rostov. Everything was going beautifully except that neither the First nor Second Five-Year Plan has yet shown Plant Manager Kartsashev how to deal with snow. In Rostov is now the largest theatre in Soviet Russia, typical of the diffusion of entertainment to the masses in which Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini are at one with the principles of President Roosevelt's WPA theatres. Cried the Ambassador, "Magnificent...
...mass theory holds that great masses of cold air and others of warm air rolling over the earth make weather by their interaction, causing rain, fog, snow. When a "cold front" slides over a "warm front" the air at the boundary is twisted and violent disturbances are likely to occur. The Weather Bureau is by no means the U. S. pioneer in this meteorological technique. In fact the Bureau's critics, of which it always has plenty, have reproached it for not making greater use of the method once its value was demonstrated. The Bureau has a quick retort...
...these virtues are supported by competent photography and direction. They harmonize with the general simplicity and form a background for it, never intruding. There is a really beautiful scene of a sleigh ride among snow-covered firs. Infact, the only fault the reviewer could find with the picture was that the film is badly scratched...
After three postponements due to lack of snow, the field of 30 skiers were rewarded by perfect conditions, fast powder snow and brisk, cold weather Times were fast: the first three men averaged about 30 miles per hour over the treacherous one and one-fourth mile course...