Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parka, Knox caught a flight to Rochester, the nearest functioning airfield. From there she hopped a truck carrying 35,000 lbs. of frozen veal, part of a two-mile-long caravan taking emergency rations to the stricken city. "Buffalo was a mess," she reports-streets unplowed, cars buried in snow, people carting groceries home on sleds. "The very fact of being there made you part of the people. 'You stuck here too?' someone would ask, and he'd start right out telling you his story...
Never before in this century had the nation been so much at the mercy of its weather. Man, animal and machine in many parts of the country were immobilized under a heavy blanket of snow and ice. A dire shortage of natural gas -long predicted and long ignored -forced the closing of hundreds of schools and businesses and drove tens of thousands of people out of their unheated homes...
...presidential leadership, but there was no disputing the fact that Carter was moving fast and forcefully. He dramatized the crisis-and the presidential role in it -by hastily convening a Cabinet meeting, then taking a quick trip to frozen Pittsburgh. He declared eleven states disaster areas because of snow or drought, thus making them eligible for some form of federal assistance...
Essentials include the care of laboratory animals, food and kitchen services, and the maintenance of heat and light utilities, Cantor said. Snow removal is also, of course, an essential service during snowstorms, he added...
...been fleshed out as a narrator who in the opening minutes of the play, introduces the characters and soliloquizes on the main themes. And don't worry that the vision of Napoleon's troops setting fire to St. Petersburg as the Russian troops fight and die in the snow will break the back of even the Loeb's large space and advanced technical equipment. Ayrton has been conducting a production seminar for the entire cast in order to prevent any catastrophes. With this class and the expertise of professionals Bill Rynders designing the set and Marcia Dixcy Carr the costumes...