Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snowshoeing Skiing Temperature 8:00 A.M. Snow (Inches) Woodstock, Vt. GOOD FAIR 10 6 Bartlett, N. H. GOOD GOOD --4 12 CANAAN, N. H. FAIR FAIR --4 5 Franconia Notch, N. H. GOOD GOOD --3 12 Fryeburg, Me. GOOD GOOD --6 8 Goffstown, N. H. POOR POOR 14 2 Gorham, N. H. NONE POOR --6 3 Greenfield, Mass. NONE GOOD 8 7 Intervale, N. H. GOOD GOOD 2 11 Jackson, N. H. GOOD GOOD 0 13 Laconia, N. H. GOOD GOOD --2 5 Lancaster, N. H. NONE FAIR 14 1 Lincoln, N. H. GOOD GOOD 2 10 Littleton...
...inundation of the upper Ohio and Susquehanna slopes. For size and damage it was a far greater national disaster. In the lower Ohio Valley there never had been such a flood. The reason for last year's flood was that the winter was too cold. The snow stayed on the ground too deep and too long. When it suddenly thawed, the water ran off in a rush because the ground was still frozen. The reason for last week's flood was that the Eastern winter had not been cold enough. Instead of remaining on the ground as snow...
...town of 2,000 population, is perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee Dam. Chelanites depend for their livelihood on seasonal occupation in the fine apple orchards of broad Chelan Valley. In the winter, when there is little work for them in the snow-covered orchards, they are hard pressed. Naturally enough, they readily subscribed to the ideas of Dr. Townsend, formed a Townsend Club soon after his something-for-nothing theories reached them. Last week with their club still going strong, Chelan's Townsendites were preparing to test the soundness of their...
Presently the weather grew thick. Pilot Lewis radioed ahead for instructions, was told to come in on the Saugus radio beam. Pilot Lewis flew on through a heavy snow storm, gradually "letting down" from 7,000 ft. At 11:05 he radioed: "Coming down to localizer [beam] at field." He was then some ten miles from Burbank and only ten from the spot where a United Airliner smashed fortnight ago with death to twelve (TIME, Jan. 11). At that point he got off the beam, began circling to pick it up. Suddenly, out of the haze loomed a mountain...
...drop-drop. Then there was a terrible crash. My seat belt kept me in my seat. I didn't lose consciousness, but my leg and side hurt. I guess I was about the only one that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there had heard the impact and screams of the victims borne by the wind, had already given the alarm...