Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was reported dead ahead. Airport officials at Key West, anxious for the President's safety, were loth to permit a takeoff. Then the President put it up to his pilot...
Routine Rain. On Christmas Day, 1945, President Truman wanted to visit his mother in Grandview, Mo. An all-night downpour of sleet, which had sheathed the Washington airport in ice, turned to murky rain by morning. Hank Myers studied the weather reports. He laid out a flight plan, made his decision. At 12:06, the President's plane, with Harry Truman aboard, lifted into the mist. Nearly six hours later, Myers cushioned the Sacred Cow to a landing at Kansas City airport. When newspapers called the flight foolhardy, Pilot Myers was amazed. "Routine," said...
They caught their share of bad weather and good parties, more than their share of good luck. They came down with flu in Greenland. They almost missed Iceland, got in just before the weather closed down tight. Their progress through Europe was slowed by sightseeing and weather (said Mrs. Evans: "He's going to have to make up some awfully good excuses...
...Alaskan weather was tough. The little planes had no de-icing equipment. They hopped along the Aleutian chain and on down the Alaska Highway, taking chances all the way with dwindling daylight and freezing weather...
...brand new cataloguing and charging system will slash time consumption in the new Lamont Library, Keyes de W. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, said yesterday. Actual construction of the library is on schedule so far, but allowing for setbacks of labor, materials, and weather, Metcalf says "we would be overly optimistic if we expected it to open before January...