Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chilly and swollen from melting snow were the waters of eastern Kentucky's Big Sandy River. In the evergreen-carpeted Cumberland foothills of Floyd County, where the Levisa Fork...
Barely thawed out from a five-month antarctic expedition. Australian-born Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins felt it was time to leave New York and to head for his Montrose, Pa. home. Lady Wilkins put off the new expedition, objected that Montrose was too cold and too bogged down in snow, revealed that her bearded husband, who has been shuttling between the North and South Poles since 1913. "doesn't like cold weather and never...
Tending the Crimson goal will be Bill Henderson. Captain Bob Anderson and John Eaton will play defense, with Stu Forbes at center. At wings will be Crocker Snow and the Yardlings' high scorer Neal Johnson...
...Blooey" was right. Every one of the major lines serving the Atlantic Coast from Washington to Boston was hard hit.. As drifting snow buried tracks and zero cold froze engines and switches, the New York Central, the New Haven, the Erie and many other commuter lines ran hours late. Trains loaded with commuters got stalled in the fields, and rescue trains sent out after them got stalled too. The New York Central reported its long-haul trains running between New York and Chicago as much as 20 hours late. Each delay produced a paralyzing chain reaction. The day after...
...electric engines was out of service. Unlike the engines on other lines, the Pennsy's GG1 locomotives have air-intake screens of imported French linen that blocked out heavy flakes but could not keep out the fine, windblown crystals. Sifting into the electrical system, the snow melted and short-circuited everything. Mechanics had to remove every water-soaked unit, dry it by hand. Said one Pennsy executive: "We were prepared for cornflakes, but we got hit by talcum powder...