Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guilty Birds. Primary clues: Japanese B breaks out regularly every June in Japan and Korea, subsides in September. Peak numbers of cases go with hot, wet weather. In southern Japan, up to 95% of all tested subjects over 20 have antibodies which give them immunity: they have had an undetected, mild case, as so often happens with polio. But in cold, northern Hokkaido, fewer than 10% have antibodies. Where the people have antibodies, so have horses, cattle, goats, sheep and chickens. So Japanese farmers who have brought chickens into their homes (and Koreans who have asked the cattle in) during...
Chicago Publisher John H. Johnson (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950), who has launched three other money-making magazines, Jet, Tan and Hue, in Ebony's wake, has had to weather some major setbacks. Ebony, flourishing at first on a spicy diet of sex and sensation, dropped 100,000 circulation last year. Publisher Johnson, 37, countered with a drive for home subscribers, dropped cheesecake and gossip for more serious reporting of Negroes in the news, and won back his readers. Johnson learned the hard way that the new-style Ebony is more in tune with its readers' interests. Says...
...originally a 22,000-lb., short-range interceptor. By early 1951 the Navy, engaged in Korea, sent a hurry-up call for something to meet the MIG on a fairly even basis. It wanted to redesign the plane, change it from the short-range to a mediumrange, all-weather fighter. This meant adding 7,000 Ibs. to the plane's weight...
Menninger said last night that be cancelled the rally because "he felt the purpose of the parade and pop session would not be accomplished due to the weather...
...only agency permitted by law to export wheat or ship it across provincial boundaries, in August 1954 placed a limit of 300 bushels on the amount of new wheat it would accept from any farmer during the harvest season. But the harvest could not wait. In the finest autumn weather in years, giant combines cut wide swaths through fields of standing wheat, spewed out rivers of top-grade grain. Commercial elevators were soon chockablock. Farmers braced old sheds to withstand the fluid pressures of loose wheat, built new barns to hold the flood, and when all the sheds were filled...