Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tides of the Bay of Fundy at Passamaquoddy, Me. They declared that Maine's remote northern tip offered no market for the vast amounts of power which would result, that necessary power could be produced more cheaply from coal. But. when Maine was preparing to whirl its political weather vane last summer, President Roosevelt expressed renewed interest in Passama quoddy, Secretary Ickes visited the site. Maine swung to the Democrats and last week got $10,000,000 for Passamaquoddy...
...Categories of workers: unskilled, intermediate, skilled, professional and technical. Lowest pay will be $19 per month for unskilled rural labor in the Deep South; highest, $94 for Northern professional city workers. Pay will be on a monthly basis, with no deduction for interruptions such as caused by bad weather. Professional labor leaders, not bothering immediately to take all factors into account, squawked that this scale would pull down wages in private industry...
Over snow-capped Mexican mountains, over 700 mi. of Gulf water, the onetime Boston social worker flew. She picked up her landfall near New Orleans. Aided by wind & weather, guided by radio and a perilous run of nearly two miles...
...knowledge that seal meat looks like liver, but tastes different; indisputable proof that the common cold and other germs flourish in Antarctica; samples of unidentified bugs which live in snow and melted ice pools; the memory of four months alone in an ice hut, "lonely as hell," studying weather conditions, reading 85 books and letting his hair grow to shoulder-length...
CRIME IN CORN WEATHER-Mary M. Atwater-Hought on Mifflin ($2). When old man Breen was killed no one mourned, many had cause to be glad. The little Iowa town's biggest excitement in years made a countywide field-day, but defeated its purpose. A beautifully subtle description of townsfolk, of why murder was done and why neither police nor press knew...