Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winter winds whistle through Auckland, New Zealand at this time of the year, but even New Zealand's chilly days are not enough to winterkill the dreams of freedom that bloom eternally in the hearts of men and monkeys. Three weeks ago, despite the weather, six bonnet monkeys decided to give up the comforts of a warm cage in the Auckland Zoo and take up residence in a pine grove just down West View Road. Zoo authorities tried in vain to lure them back, but the free souls in the pine trees only mocked their efforts...
...first they attacked head on. "In our business," says one of them (with some chagrin, now), "weather had never stopped us. We'd work through a blizzard or duster. So when we started on offshore oil, we said: 'To hell with the weather. What's a hurricane, anyway? Nothing but a big ol wind...
...Weather Lesson. The smallish hurricane that hit Freeport, Texas in 1949 taught them a startling lesson. The great waves rode higher than anyone dreamed they could. They twisted and smashed the steelwork of the sea rigs, and tossed heavy machines around as if they were wooden mockups...
...must be freed of water, gas and sand, and brought ashore in pipelines. The crews must be housed and fed. All this is enormously expensive, with boats plying continually among the well platforms, special bases to service the boats, and radars to guide them in foggy weather. When an offshore field is fully developed, it will look like a steel city built...
AIRLINE PILOTS' STRIKE is being threatened over the Civil Aeronautics Board rule increasing maximum flight time in a given day from eight to ten hours so that airlines can make nonstop transcontinental runs in all weather. The Air Line Pilots Association (A.F.L.) has sent out strike ballots to 3,500 pilots (one-third of the airline total) flying for American, United and Trans World Airlines, says that its members are flying the long runs only "under threat of discharge." THREE-WAY MERGER of American Woolen Co., Textron Inc. and Bachmann Uxbridge Worsted Corp...