Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the brief hours of sunny weather, the President strolled around his fields, practiced chips and putts on the golf green east of the house. Between periods of relaxation and strength-building, he attended to some White House business. At week's end the nation finally got word that Dwight Eisenhower had talked about "politics...
...become a champion she has submitted to an endless grind. In the winter she works out five days a week in the Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. pool near her Ridgewood home. Once a week she travels to Manhattan for professional training at the Women's Swimming Association. When the weather warms up, she spends every day at Ridgewood's outdoor municipal pool, swims a mile morning and evening when the pool is uncrowded. "Afternoons," says Carin, "I put on my plaid bathing suit and go down with the kids and have a good time." There, she is always careful...
...Atomic Weather. In nearly all parts of the world, atomic-bomb tests are blamed for unusual weather. In the U.S., for instance, an article in the Saturday Review by Dr. Irving Bengelsdorf (an organic chemist) blames bomb tests for steering hurricanes toward New England-despite the fact that there were destructive New England hurricanes in 1938 and 1944, before any bomb had been exploded...
...Germany June was uncommonly cold and wet, and a group of Bundestag Deputies formally asked the government to investigate. Other German legislators demanded an official check on the radioactivity of the ocean. In France and Italy the public has the same conviction: the weather is unprecedented; it is the bomb's fault...
What Benson did not say was that in Iowa, as in other drought-ridden states where a man makes a decision with an eye on the weather and a hand on his pocketbook, thousands of canny farmers are treasuring options that will permit them to withdraw their land from the soil bank by July 20 if they change their minds. Reason: if enough rain falls before that date, many will go ahead with their crops in anticipation of a higher per-acre income than the soil bank would pay (an average of $44 an acre) if the crops were plowed...