Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stromy Weather...
Part of that leadership was the act of voting in a democratic election and of proving to the world that democracy works-in all kinds of wind and weather. For it was important for the world to know that the nation which had conceived the Marshall Plan and created the Berlin airlift could change its own leadership at home without altering its concept of freedom or changing its will for peace...
...beaming at an early morning press conference, General Clay scattered the good news like bird shot. In Western Germany, he said, "there has been an almost unbelievable recovery." The airlift into beleaguered Berlin, he said, now carried 5,000 tons of food and fuel a day during good weather and 3,000 "under very bad conditions." This would be enough to keep Berlin supplied through the winter; besides, he had wangled 66 additional C-54s for the airlift (see Armed Forces...
...planners," said Clay, "failed to recognize our strength in the air . . . The airlift to Berlin is not a makeshift operation. It is a well organized, efficient and precisely timed operation which can provide the minimum essentials for the people of Berlin indefinitely . . . Our airmen . . . have not wavered in bad weather; nor in the face of contemptible threats...
...Sure Do." Last week Gus arrived in New York, a tall, weather-tough man with crinkled eyes and a face reddened in the high mountain winds. He proudly donned his postmasters' convention badge, dutifully attended the sessions, listened gravely as Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson declared that the post office faced a record $550 million deficit, that Congress should overhaul its "horse & buggy rates." Penny postcards, Donaldson pointed out, cost the department 2.6? to print, sell, and handle, and 95% of them are sold to advertisers who flood the mails with them "by the billions." Gus nodded soberly...