Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...houses, it should at least give housing a solid push along its road to recovery. From last year's disappointing record of 990,000 starts, home building jumped in January to an annual rate of 1,030,000 starts, about 3% better than expected. Although storms and snow chilled the pace in February and March, builders point to a continuing uptrend in the South and West, expect the first sign of spring to thaw out a rush of weather-stalled starts...
Winter's last crushing blow began as a weak storm in the South. Laden with tropic moisture, it swung up the East Coast, began dumping wet snow, thousands of tons of it, across a 200-mile-wide belt, from Virginia all the way up to Maine...
Storm & Stares. Pennsylvania's storm damage was the worst in 40 years. Somehow all the misery came to focus in a Howard Johnson's restaurant on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, just 50 miles from Philadelphia, where snow strangled every moving object, turned the road into a quilted graveyard of cars. Stranded motorists wedged out of their vehicles and headed for shelter. The lucky ones found their way to the restaurant, where they waited uncomprehendingly-first a dozen, then 20, then 100. Within a few hours, more than 800 people milled about the soda fountain, boiler room, and garage, clamoring...
...last a few Air Force helicopters whirled in to remove some of the ailing. Then police and snow-plow crews broke through. After 36 harrowing hours, the trapped 800 mushed on their way, mumbling incoherently the never-to-be-forgotten names of Howard Johnson's 28 delicious ice-cream flavors. Before most of them got home, the snow had stopped. The sun was shining...
...June 24, 1954 in Beirut, while Stone was putting the finishing touches on his design for the $5,000,000 Hotel Phoenicia. Three days later, Stone lounged in his bathrobe on a balcony of the St. George Hotel, took a long look at the blue Mediterranean and the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon, and began his first sketch for the U.S. New Delhi embassy, a commission he had received from the U.S. State Department three months before. The sketch (see cut), done quickly on the corner of a coffee-stained Manila envelope which Maria snatched from the wastebasket afterward...