Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What I'm Going to Do' Into the vortex of the Israel crisis flew the President of the U.S., his forehead deeply furrowed, his mood somber as he alighted from an Air Force Constellation at Washington National Airport in a cold and soaking rain. "This is some weather," he growled to his military and naval aides, hankering back to the vacation he had just cut short in sunny Thomasville, Ga. As he sped off downtown to the White House, Ike huddled down into his tan raincoat, reached often into his left coat pocket for a handkerchief, breaking...
...presidential physician, Major General Howard Snyder, diagnosed Ike's ailment as not a "cold" at all but a mild case of tracheitis, i.e., inflammation of the windpipe, accompanied by persistent coughing. Ike picked up his trouble, said Snyder, while standing for hours in the brisk and breezy weather of Inauguration Day last month reviewing the inaugural parade. Not even Georgia's warm sunshine had burned it off. As a precautionary measure, Ike slipped off to Walter Reed Army Hospital the day after his TV speech on Israel to get X rays of his sinuses and lungs. The results...
...force of fishermen to 2,000, its share of the vital groundfish market (e.g., flounder, haddock, cod), which was once 90%, to 45%. Yet last week the Boston fish pier was sprucing up as if it had not a worry in the world. Fresh coats of paint covered the weather-beaten buildings, ramshackle structures were being razed, new signs warned filthy-booted fishermen: PLEASE KEEP YOUR FEET ON THE FLOOR. Among the pier's old salts the word was: "The boys have taken over...
...warlike science, but not all of his practical work was concerned with war. He made key contributions to the mathematics of giant computing machines, and although computers using his theories are essential for designing thermonuclear weapons, they also have such important peacetime functions as forecasting the weather and controlling the operation of oil refineries...
...Worse. Oddly enough, Europe was less upset than the U.S. itself over the industry's laggard performance. Though oil stocks dwindled daily, Britain and the Continent were cheered by prospects of warmer weather and an early reopening of the Suez Canal. But as matters stood last week, the oil lift across the Atlantic seemed to be going from bad to worse. In seven days the U.S. averaged shipments of only 454,000 bbl. of petroleum products to Europe, of which barely 183,000 bbl. daily were crude oil, far below the figure of 500,000 bbl. daily...