Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain-maker's services may be at a premium this year, which has started off with the wettest spring on record. In the first four months of 1953 there was a total of 28.46 inches of precipitation (including rain, snow, hail and sleet). This is 15.59 inches over normal. In addition, March was the wettest March and the third wettest month in the 82-year history of the Boston weather bureau. April had more rain than any April since...
...outpouring of first-quarter earnings, many a company reported the best sales and profits in its history. Of 236 companies which had reported by last week, 167-or 71%-showed profit rises. The food industry, helped by lower commodity prices, furnished some of the rosiest reading. Clinton Foods (Snow Crop frozen foods) had a 651% gain (to $1,200,000), Continental Baking almost 132% (to $1,400,000). A. E. Staley had a 125% gain, to $1,200,000, and Corn Products Refining...
...aristocratic young cavalry lieutenant of the French Fourth Hussars had decided to stage an ice carnival for his pert blonde mistress Mimi. When the Moselle froze solid one night in 1879, he had the snow-decked pines along the river bank festooned with gaily colored lanterns. Mimi made her entrance in a sled carved like a swan. At a signal, all lights except those from a bank of flaming punch bowls were doused, and fur-coated flunkies served up a feast of Parisian delicacies and champagne. To cap the party, a clump of snow-cleared pines was set ablaze...
...insisted on telling the voters the chill realities they did not want to hear,--that peace "could not drift down from the skies like soft snow." His speeches were courageous, honest, responsible. But they were political suicide...
Many have remarked about the curious inability on the part of the Lampoon to picture the touching scene over Red Square. The Ibis, with the graceful arch of its beak thrust into the Moscow snow, would probably overlook the tomb of John Reed, a former Communist Lampoon editor and one of four men to be buried in the Kremlin...