Word: subzero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the conclusions reached by qualified observers. New York Times Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin found that, while the exercise proved the feasibility of limited, small-scale operations over snow-covered terrain, large-scale transpolar military expeditions would be "virtually impossible." Wrote he: "The difficulties of mass airborne operations in subzero weather are so major that they may never be solved." Mars, like a brass monkey, could not stand intense cold...
...During the week, 270,000 workers were laid off because of fuel and power shortages-200,000 of them in Detroit alone. Rail, river and air transportation was badly disrupted. At subzero temperatures, locomotives were unable to keep up steam pressure. The Ohio River was frozen from shore to shore for the first time in twelve years. Storms at sea delayed the Queen Mary's arrival for two days. In Chicago, where Lake Michigan pilings were so heavily coated with ice that they looked like Sherman tanks (see cut), water-system intakes had to be unclogged with dynamite...
Mukden is subzero country at this season. A ragged blanket of snow spreads over the surrounding plain; canals and streams are ice. The wind cuts through the warmest clothes. Yet there seemed to be less spiritual desolation in Mukden this week than when I saw it under Russian rule in February 1946, after the Soviet rape of Manchuria's industry. A lot of people can muster a smile now. But nobody could find cause for confidence; the Chinese talked of cold homes, high and rising prices, the failing electricity supply. Seven provincial governors wait to enter provinces which...
Professor Pound has always been a strong man and for years could run a five minute mile. When he lived in Belmont, he walked six miles a day to Cambridge, and he became famous among his neighbors for going coat-less in subzero weather...
Professor, Pound has always been a strong man and for years could run a five minute mile. When he lived in Belmont, he walked six miles a day to Cambridge, and he became famous among his neighbors for going coatless in subzero weather...