Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole, the conditions are not encouraging for a good skiing week end. Pinkham Notch and Wildcat Trails: 10" of heavy wet snow, covered with hard crust. Need more snow: Mt. Mansfield: Stew, Vt.; four to six inches of snow with a few bare spots on the practice slopes. Up to 36" of snow on Mountain Tow rd. Nose Dive slide is patched with icy surfaces. Suicide to try this. Lesser trails better than Nose Dive but still bad: Mt. Cardigan; Alexandria N. H.; six and one half inches of old snow on practice slopes, '12" on Duke's trail. Main...
General temperature; between 30 and 35, always hovering around freezing. Few snow flurries at Mansfield yesterday...
Latest reports from the Boston Weather Bureau indicate that temperatures over the weekend will rise giving possibilities of rain or a few snow flurries in Norther New England. Reports from Mt. Washington, Mr. Mansfield, Mr. Cardigan, and Gunstock Range indicate several inches of heavy snow on top of a hard crust. While reports are not favorable for the weekend's skiing, it must be remembered that last weekend conditions changed late Friday night making good skiing. This may happen again...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden this week was to open a winter sports show, complete with a ski slide covered with snow-like ground ice. Two days before workmen began installing equipment for this commercial venture the Garden was the scene of a less publicized, less spectacular event. Paying nothing to get in, 18,000 New Yorkers settled themselves among its 20,000 seats. There was music by a Salvation Army band, a massed choir from city churches, a single speech. The speaker was that ever zealous Methodist Missionary, Rev. Dr. E. (for Eli) Stanley Jones. Cried...
...Oberlaender Trust to promote German-American good-will by sending U. S. scholars to Germany and Austria. In progress at Berkshire Mills since Oct. 1 has been a strike against "sweatshop" conditions (TIME, Dec. 7). By last week's end 135 picketers, lying flat in slush and snow outside the plant, had been arrested for "blocking the sidewalk...