Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slump in the Summer. Meanwhile, summer replacement shows were working on the theory that entertainment should be as much fun in hot weather as in cold (TIME, June 27). Unhappily, not a single summer show, including two NBC one-shot Spectaculars (Remember-1938 and Allen in Homeland), has yet risen above a depressingly low level of mediocrity...
...women stamped out, and in the freezing weather formed a laager (camp) at the foot of a statue of General Louis Botha, valiant warrior against the British in the Boer War. All night long and all the next day and night they stayed there, huddled in blankets and occasionally chanting, "Save the Constitution." Hoodlums tried to move them by throwing firecrackers, but the husbands of some of the women stood by and chased them off. Meanwhile, the women addressed letters to the people of South Africa; among them was a German immigrant who wrote: "I do not want to live...
...defense chiefs' reasoning: for all their enthusiasm and World War II experience, the auxiliary pilots and mechanics would find the latest jets, e.g., the F-86 Sabre or the CF-100 all-weather interceptor, too hot to handle without extensive extra training.* Explained one R.C.A.F. officer: "Things are different now. The whole bloody war might be won or lost in the first half hour...
Across the Great Plains last week the wheat rippled golden and willowy. Everywhere, wheat farmers seemed inclined to grumble about the weather, the farm program, or both. At week's end in 36 states the) trooped into courthouses, schoolrooms and church halls to vote on the system of federal wheat quotas-a crucial issue for farmers and the nation...
...when the war ended, S. & W. ran into rough weather. In a single year, the line saw its gross plummet nearly 50% from the 1953 peak of $13.6 million. It returned six leased DC-4s, chopped its personnel, and hustled up private air freight, flying everything from European leather goods for the carriage trade to Indian rhesus monkeys for the Salk polio-vaccine program. It bought four new Lockheed Super Constellations to give customers faster service, expanded its service to the point where this year's revenues will top $15 million. Next step: more expansion by buying more long...