Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Douglas' spirits are up. Though his Arizona tan is gone and he is beginning to look a little drawn, his sinus trouble has not bothered him in London's unusually dry, bright weather. His stomach (he once had "most of the insides cut out" as a result of the Argonne gassing) is well enough so that he can sneak an occasional forbidden Martini or cigarette...
Insuring snug conditions in the wettest weather is a brand new $20,000 skylight, which looks down onto the newly-installed Oregon pine balcony saucer...
...radio relay system connecting New York and Boston was demonstrated last week by Bell Telephone Laboratories. The cableless cable uses microwaves about 7½ cm. long, which are not affected by weather, static or most kinds of man-made interference. The waves move in straight lines and refuse to curve with the earth, so they cannot make Boston in one jump. The telephone people skip them from hilltop to hilltop...
...tiny (30-ft.) boats duly began patrolling the channel, squirting their 20 nozzles as ominously as they could for news photographers. But the New Mexico did not arrive. In rough weather off the Long Island coast the tugs cast off her tows, and for a few hours the New Mex strayed alone on the Atlantic. Finally the Coast Guard found the battleship wallowing helplessly in heavy seas and the tugs got lines aboard once more...
Antifreeze Squeeze. Cold weather caught the U.S. short of antifreeze. In many cities, under-the-counter caches (at over listed price) were the only source of supply. One reason for the shortage: production remained the same, while the number of cars increased. Another reason: chemical manufacturers are using more methanol and glycols, two basic ingredients of antifreeze, for plastics...