Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reinforced by a violin and a harp, played throughout the meal (sometimes with so much gusto that an attendant had to quiet them down). The consomme was accompanied by some airily impressionistic Debussy, the timbale by a new composition entitled Song of the Lost Spring. Just then, the springy weather outside gave way to a violent snowstorm, which remained over Paris until Marshall's departure for Berlin next...
...weather was just as bad in Germany. People fighting their way through unusually heavy snow cracked bitterly: "They're even going to take spring away from us at Moscow." In Berlin, Marshall urged conclusion of a 40-year Big Four Alliance to keep Germany disarmed, which, he said pointedly, should eliminate the suspicions with which some of the U.S.'s allies regard the U.S.'s role in Europe. But ever since Jimmy Byrnes first proposed this alliance last October, the Russians have ignored the offer...
...vast wastes above the Arctic Circle, where much of the world's weather is generated, Canada has only two weather stations equipped for long-range forecasting and the U.S. has only three (at Thule in Greenland, at Barrow and Kotzebue, in Alaska). To achieve a closer study and better forecasting, Canada and the U.S. joined last week in a plan for more observation posts...
Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe announced that within the next three years, nine new weather stations for long-range forecasting will be built above the Arctic Circle. Canadians will be in charge of operating them, but the U.S. will pay an unspecified portion of the initial cost (an estimated $150,000 per station) and maintenance. At first the U.S. will also provide most of the trained personnel. Though Howe did not say so, Canadians guessed that this was the first action to implement the new U.S.-Canada defense agreement (TIME...
...stations will be more than just weather eyes. Their studies (plus practical flying tests such as U.S. Army B-29 crews are now making in the Arctic) will determine whether or not commercial airliners (and, of course, bombers) can fly over the Arctic to Europe and the Far East. Eventually some of the stations will be equipped with radar which can search out and plot the path of distant storms, and incidentally can be used for military observation posts if the need arises...