Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York. There was a vicious punch in the storm's great white fist when it struck New York State. At Lake Placid the thermometer slumped to -12°, freezing out the hardy contestants in the North American bobsled races. In Manhattan, 9.2 in. of snow fell. In the metropolitan area 500,000 commuters could not get to work. The Stock Exchange opened an hour late. Setting aside another $2,000,000 to pay 50,000 men to dig his hard-strapped city out, Mayor La Guardia moaned: "I get the jitters every time I see snow." Because all city...
...Graves, longtime New York Times Sunday editor, now a Doubleday, Doran executive at Garden City, where he was isolated: "A man lies unburied two days after the funeral hour because a coffin could not be got to his house. A young woman was dragged unconscious, half frozen, from a snow heap half a mile from her home. Electric wires were dead. . . . Telephone wires were useless. Taxicabs and private automobiles stayed in their garages or stuck in the snow. . . . For the better part of 24 hr. no help could be had, for love or money, in case of fire or serious...
...Jersey the storm blocked the huge Brunswick Pike. At one point, near Princeton, 250 motorists left their cars in snowbanks, put up for the night in filling stations, farms, hot dog stands. Chesapeake Bay shipping was partially paralyzed. The Eastern Shore of Maryland lay buried under a foot of snow. The gale lashed its angry tail when it reached Washington, ripped a huge hanging lantern out of the White House porch. In northern Florida, the storm threatened to wreck the citrus fruit crop with subfreezing temperatures at Jacksonville...
...days after the Army started to carry the airmail, Lieut. Durward 0. Lowry of the 94th Pursuit Squadron, Selfridge Field (Mich.), took off at 4 a. m. from Chicago for Cleveland. An icy blast whistled over his open cockpit and below he could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer near...
...mail in her belly from Newark to Cleveland. Suddenly something went wrong with the lubrication. The motor burned out and Lieut. McCoy was forced down into a cow pasture at Dishtown, Pa. He slung the 211 Ib. of mail on his back, slogged two miles through the snow into Woodland, where he handed his mail over to the postmistress to be forwarded by train...