Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan took just as warmly to Alemán as Washington, but its weather was bad. A misty rain fell. Bareheaded, Alemán smiled through hours of parading up & down the island in an open car. Wall Street gave him a soggy version of its traditional ticker-tape ovation; Mexicans, in native costumes, lined the streets. At City Hall, he was made an honorary citizen. At Columbia University, he received an honorary LL.D...
Worn out, he went to bed early (but not before shaving, which he does at night so that a thin stubble will protect his face when the sun is bright). Next day, he rose at 5:45 a.m. as usual, took one look at the soaked fields. If the weather didn't dry up soon, the corn would be late going in, and it might be soft, come harvest time. Soft corn made poor feed...
Until the kids got started, prices in Canada were like the weather-everybody talked about them, nobody did anything. But in the Vancouver Island sawmill town of Chemainus (pop. 1,753), the youngsters put their heads together. Instead of candy bars (up to 8? since the April 2 decontrol) they agreed to buy ice cream cones, which were still a nickel. Youngsters from eight to 18 picketed stores. "Don't be a sucker-don't buy eight-cent bars," their signs read. "Let the suckers pay eight cents...
...useful in approaching a fogbound airport or coming down through a low ceiling), it is not intended as a complete blind-landing device. Its chief usefulness is for flying between airports: if developed a year ago, it might have prevented several disasters when airplanes in thick weather hit unexpected "terrain...
...cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are not supposed to come from the sun, but they may be influenced somehow by its sudden blackout. Airborne, too, will be Army meteorologists, watching temperature changes in the atmosphere at all levels as the moon's cold shadow sweeps across Brazil. If the weather is good, they ought to get a gorgeous silhouette picture of the earth's satellite...