Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Floundering airlines meant more than just T.W.A. Of the big lines, T.W.A. was in the worst shape. But some smaller lines were also in danger of crashing. And all the airlines, hit by a falling-off of traffic due to crashes and abnormally bad winter weather, had had one of the worst Januarys in their history They had been doing none too well before that. In the first eleven months of 1946, the U.S. airlines had shown an estimated net loss of over $900,000 v. a net profit of about $20,000,000 for the same period...
Harsh winter weather kept a lot of U.S. moviegoers at home during the past few weeks. Variety reported a noticeable slump at box offices. But neither snow nor slush nor biting winds bit too deeply into the popularity...
...breaks, it might have been the greatest setback to Allied arms since Dunkirk. Ship crews and assault troops alike, Morison explains, were in most cases only half-trained. When it came to combat, nine out of ten were utter greenhorns. With huge fleets committed far from home, heavy weather on D-day might have been fatal. The weather was in fact generally calm and clear, although high seas (15ft. surf) had swept the Moroccan coast almost until the morning of the landings...
When the Labor government could stand it least, the weather joined with a complex group of economic factors to give England its greatest coal shortage in history. While Britain shivered and slowed down to a case of industrial frost-bite, her leaders joined with peace-planners everywhere in speculation over just what was the matter with the British economy. At the heart the problem was the disturbing possibility of the periodic exhaustion of British resources and morale which could affect the economy of all of western Europe...
Army's sword-squad and bad weather combined forces Saturday to hand Rene Peroy's fencers their second straight defeat of the season...