Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belgium suffered at 95°, and only Congo officials home on leave thought the temperature bearable. Lack of rain hurt the Belgian fruit crop. Karlstad, Swedish manufacturing town, had the hottest weather for Scandinavia (86°), and Stockholm consumed 183,400 cubic meters (48,417,600 gallons) of water in one day. Drought meant bad crops and forest fires for Sweden. Copenhagen reported three deaths from sunstroke...
...Kladno, 18 miles northwest of Prague, live Czech coal miners and steel workers.* The town was known in free Czecho-Slovakia as a Communist stronghold and since the German occupation has been the centre of a quiet but effective sabotage campaign against German rule that has everywhere tried the short tempers of the new masters of Bohemia. Bilingual Czech waiters have suddenly "lost" their knowledge of German when waiting on German customers. Czech school children have mimicked the German Army goose step-and grownups have had to pay for the mimicry with jail terms. Czech girls who date German soldiers...
...mile route, the gardens of the old von Schrenk estate. There, before an altar, a priest raised his arms in the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, and air bombs and rockets showered the night with cascading fire. This Old-World pageantry took place last week in the little town of Florissant, Mo., near St. Louis...
...Corpus Christi, a feast celebrating the Lord's institution of the Eucharist. One of the few places in the U. S. where elaborate Corpus Christi processions take place is Florissant. Except for a few years after the World War, Florissant's devout inhabitants have decorated the town and marched with the Sacrament on every Corpus Christi since...
...cancels her trip to an abortionist (her husband has found a job when she gets home). A philandering playboy makes amends to his future fifth wife, thus saving her from suicide. An ambitious chorus girl consents to marry an amateur philosopher, retire to the simple life in a small town in Oregon...