Word: snows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others were luckier. In Kansas, Mrs. D. O. Durr peered out of the snow-framed windows of her farmhouse and, like many other farm wives, knew what to expect. Soon refugees started straggling in from nearby highway No. 96-a couple with a three-months-old child, a 90-year-old man, stranded linemen. For two days and nights, Mrs. Durr had 39 guests. As the storm raged on, they feasted on corned beef brisket, little pig sausage, green beans, dozens of eggs and gallons of milk. The women shared the beds; the men slept on the floor. Mrs. Durr...
...storm pounded on against the sturdy barns of Iowa's rich farms, on up into Minnesota, out over the Great Lakes. It drove boats and ships aground. Unburdened of snow, the winds whipped along the border country and on east to the sea. In Buffalo, the gale tumbled a 75-ton coal crane from its tracks, sent it plunging 60 feet through a transformer building. At Painted Post, N.Y., in a final slap, the wind knocked over an iron statue of an Indian which had stood since...
...pair of pants, shouldered skis and took off for the hills. That was before the U.S. clothing industry made it its $15 million-a-year business to make sure that skiers got to the wilds suitably groomed to: 1) ski and 2) impress other skiers. Last week, with snow falling in Canada's Laurentians and in the U.S. Midwest, department stores went after the skiers with fashion shows, grand openings and a fanfare of flashy publicity...
...Snow mixed with rain and near-freezing temperatures is today predicted to end the record-length Indian summer which New England has been enjoying...
...with parking problems and fines, the arrival of winter will mean new expenses and problems. Police promise that parking fines will become more prevalent, and stubborn motorists who have evaded the fair-weather forays of Cambridge may find their cars towed off the streets to clear the way for snow plows...