Word: snowes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's soft air of calm was deceptive. Like every Bavarian city and village, Munich went mad last week. While wind and snow whistled through the scarred streets and hollow buildings, along the avenues and through bright windows could be seen gaudy devils and silvery angels, Spanish ladies with black mantillas, Egyptian pharaohs in gold brocade, Hawaiian dancers in tights, bra and lei. Jazz bands blared in every cabaret and public dancehall...
...February, forsythia bloomed on Long Island, Maryland's spring peepers started to peep, and shirtsleeved New Yorkers lay on green grass in Central Park. In violent contrast, Southern Californians shoveled snow this winter for the first time in their lives, and the stiff bodies of frozen cattle broke the blades of rotary snowplows in blizzard-bound Montana...
...southern Louisiana, Spanish moss hanging from the live oaks stiffened into icicles for the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitants. In Pasadena, the palms were loaded with four inches of white stuff which the residents recognized as snow. San Diego, one jump from the Mexican border, had a little snow too, the first since the earliest weather records (1850). Waco, Tex. had the coldest day (5° below zero) since 1899; Pocatello, Idaho, had the coldest day (31° below) ever recorded...
Great Blizzard. The cold in the west was not the bright, dry cold that westerners pretend to enjoy so much. It snowed & snowed & snowed. Bitter cold and roaring wind turned the snowstorms into blizzards. The great blizzard of early January was the worst that ever hit the high-plains states. In South Dakota the Black Hills region got 50 inches of snow; Deadwood got 77 inches. Total snowfall for January in western Nebraska averaged 70 inches...
...kept on losing money anyway, except for three war years, when it made $4.4 million. Last year, with record revenues of $52 million, it lost a record $6 million. It also stirred up a record outcry from commuters when it broke down almost completely under the winter's snow storms (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948). (One passenger, after 8½ hours aboard one stymied train, complained of claustrophobia, sued the Long Island for "false imprisonment...