Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furnished with the proper equipment, it should have been able to carry the mail far better than it has. After all!" Mr. Doriot exclaimed, "long bombing and observation fights should have been of sufficient training to the flyers to allow them to transport the mail successfully, and even bad weather is no excuse for the many mishaps which have occurred, for a war would certainly demand flying in bad weather...
...army fliers have crashed to their death since the air mail service was taken out of the hands of the private companies. Yesterday the President ordered all except the most necessary routes to be abandoned until weather conditions and experience permitted the aviation corps to fly them safely. The army planes on all routes slowed up the service so much that large quantities of scheduled air mail were sent by train instead. Finally, the Administration is doing its best to recontract the private companies and relieve the overworked military planes...
Last week most of Pennsylvania's beavers stayed safely inside their big stick & mud lodges while trappers waited for warm weather to thaw out streams and ponds. With 50,000 trappers in prospect, the Game Commission has limited each one to ten traps, a catch of not more than six beavers during the season. No beaver may be dug or smoked from his lodge, or shot except when found alive in a trap. But the wise trapper, setting his trap a little back from the water's edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling...
...information is available as to what mail is being delivered by air and what is going by trains. Delays are numerous and complaints of irregular service are continuing, notwithstanding the improvement in weather conditions...
...Briton and an officer in banishing a South African chief who had punished a white man (TIME, Sept. 25 et seq.). Four thousand miles farther on was Britain. Three thousand miles to the south was the South Pole where he had been in 1912 with Captain Scott. In ordinary weather the seas of the South Atlantic, with thousands of miles of unbroken run behind them, rear up like mountain ridges. But last week's storm unsettled the stomachs of all but the oldest seamen and Admiral Evans...