Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister in the new Rightist Cabinet (see p. 17), ended a fortnight of cautious inaction on the Teruel front, launched an offensive 25 miles north of Teruel which this week swept forward at least 18 miles. In the ominous calm which preceded this fresh blast in Spain's storm, Britain's lanky No. 1 commentator on military affairs, famed Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, leaned back in a London armchair last week, pondered, then wrote his professional opinion-thoughtful if iffy-on the next six months of Spain's civil...
...Poles and they visibly ionize the air atoms, as an electric current ionizes gas atoms in a commercial sign. Auroras are brighter and more frequent when sunspots are active, and sunspots have been more active in recent months than at any time since 1870. Last fortnight a magnetic storm of unusual violence caused transatlantic telephone communication by short-wave radio to fade out (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week, while the great aurora waved its brilliant folds across the sky, transatlantic short waves faded again...
...debentures to a total in one year of $975,000,000. Thus FDIC has or can raise a maximum of a billion and a quarter dollars as an anchor to windward for some 20 billion in deposits. Whether the anchor would hold in the face of a real banking storm even Leo Crowley does not care to assert, but in the 179 bank failures since FDIC began (nine in 1934, 26 in 1935, 68 in 1936, 28 in the first half of 1937, 48 in the second half), FDIC has paid out $44,000,000 to depositors, recovered...
...coast of Siberia where the Lena River pours into the Arctic. Of a party of 14 men, including Commander George Washington De Long, only two came through alive. Nine, after incredible hardships, were almost within reach of help when they starved. Another group of eight was lost in a storm within a day's sail of safety. Ten men under Chief Engineer Melville stumbled on a native village, set out to rescue the others, found only their bodies and the disconnected record of their suffering written in their journals and their emaciated bodies...
...last week a violent "magnetic storm" or disturbance of the earth's magnetic field broke out. Associated with the current high sunspot activity, the magnetic storm caused transatlantic telephone communication by short-wave radio to go haywire. Since it is the medium short-wave band which appears to suffer most from such disturbances, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and R. C. A. Communications restored telephone traffic across the Atlantic by shifting to longer wavelengths...