Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coal production, not only because of cold weather, but because of the prices of competing fuels, has run 60% ahead of last year during the first five months...
...weather Commissioners Landis & Kennedy spent a day scouting around for a building to house S.E.C., finally arranged with Secretary Ickes to move into the old Interstate Commerce Commission Building on Pennsylvania Ave. Chairman Kennedy summoned newshawks, delivered himself of a ringing statement against speculative profits: "The days of stock manipulation are in the past now. There will be little, if any, of this 'buy today and out Thursday' business from this time on. ... You can't rig the market any more...
...first expedition, which had as its goal the Forbidden City of Lhasa, started in 1896. Over 16,000-ft. mountain passes, in bitter sub-zero weather, he led his dwindling caravan where no white men had ever been before; for 55 days they saw no other human being. Not since 1846, when French Missionaries Hue and Gabet had gone there in disguise, had a European entered Lhasa. On the last stretch Hedin cut down his party to three men. But word of their coming had reached the Tibetan Governor, Kamba Bombo, who politely but firmly about-faced them. Explorer Hedin...
...half, but when it was over, yachtsmen were less sanguine than they had been about Rainbow. Weetamoe, sailed by Richard Boardman, had beaten her off wind and on over a 34-mile course, by a mile and a half. There was an 18-mile breeze, just the kind of weather Yankee likes, for the fifth race but Skipper Adams went to the Harvard commencement exercises while Rainbow nosed out Weetamoe...
Weetamoe and Yankee, both contenders for defending the Cup in 1930, were remodelled to conform to this year's rules. Yankee, a heavy weather boat which holds the record for the 30-mile Cup course, had her bow sharpened to make her faster in light airs. Frank Paine, her designer, raised the money by subscription in Boston. Weetamoe had her keel weights deepened and moved forward to make her more seaworthy. The New York syndicate which owns Whirlwind, slowest of 1930's four contenders, did not recondition her this year. vanitie, under this year's rules...