Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spirit of God is moving across Great Britain," said Billy Graham last week. On a raw afternoon of wind and rain (the kind of weather. Billy told the crowds, that would have emptied a U.S. stadium), he wound up his three-month campaign with two open-air meetings. At London's White City Stadium 67,000 came to hear him, and at Wembley, a few hours later, about 120,000 turned out - more than had come there to the 1948 Olympic games. When Evangelist Graham called on them to step forward and "receive Christ as your Lord and Master...
AUTO SALES have dipped sharply in May despite predictions of a warm-weather pickup, but production still shows no signs of slowing down. New-car sales for the first ten days totaled only 140,000 units, down 11% from April and 20% below 1953. Dealer stocks of unsold new cars have now reached 660,000 units, almost 50% higher than a year...
...Whitley Collins, 56, a tireless, hard-driving financial expert, was elected president of Northrop Aircraft, Inc., maker of the F-89D Scorpion, all-weather, rocket-armed interceptor. Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Collins started as a banker, was a vice president and general manager of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. by the time he was 31. Today he is still a partner of the Collins-Powell Co., an aircraft-parts sales organization he founded in 1931; president of the Radioplane Co., which he founded in 1938 and which now makes target drones...
...concert will include selections by Berlioz, Brahms, Handel, and Rubenstein, and Choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan. According to the Weather Bureau, rain will not be included n the program...
Defensive Lassitude. In warm weather or during exercise, the evaporation of sweat does most of the final cooling, but the body cannot produce an unlimited amount of sweat, and if it is forced to do so, there are various ill effects. So the natural reaction of the overheated human is to sit still until his temperature falls. In the long run, this defensive lassitude lowers the cultural level...