Word: thaws
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...Minnesota, two feet of flood water still stood where farmers usually have spring wheat planted by mid-April. March ice had smothered winter wheat. A freakish end-of-March thaw, followed by April's freeze, had sent torrents over the frozen soil and pushed the Mississippi to flood stage...
...ground begins to thaw, and the ico on the Charles breaks up, House teams enter the spring season, the home stretch in their race for the Straus Trophy designating supremacy in House athletics. Right now, Leverett seems to have a tight grasp on the cup, holding a lead of about 115 points over Winthrop, with Adams holding third place. By the end of the winter season, the lead will probably have increased to about...
...Army Engineers, who did the building, "road open" means that trucks can travel up & down as fast as 25 m.p.h. Even the spring thaw will stop travel only temporarily, they hope. Ice, breaking in the 200 bridged rivers, will take out many of their bridges. But the Engineers are prepared. Crews will stand by to replace wrecked bridges...
...months (after which they will remain 50% taxable). 2) Capital losses in one year can be used to offset capital gains over a five-year period. 3) Capital losses may be deducted to the full amount of gains, plus $1,000. These simple changes should help thaw out the artificially frozen capital markets...
...none of these things started the avalanche. It formed slowly, as avalanches usually do when the sun after shining for some time produces a critical thaw releasing the forces of nature. So many necessities of war and economics had finally begun to show that the Administration had to move and the rumbles of its movement came on a dozen fronts...