Word: weatherized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the church. The threat brought immediate results. Several of the stars immediately announced that they were reneging on their deal with Packer, and others were having second thoughts. At week's end Packer had not admitted defeat, but it began to look as if cricket would successfully weather his brash effort to inject show biz into its Edwardian reverie...
...Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., a consortium of eight oil companies, hopes to rebuild the station by mid-September, after which cold weather will make repairs virtually impossible. Otherwise, it would have to delay for another ten months the goal of increasing the pipeline's flow to its initial capacity of 1.2 million bbl. per day. That could cause financial problems for the state of Alaska; it has been counting on taxes from the pipeline, which are determined by the amount of oil actually moved, to finance 60% of its $1 billion current budget...
...Eliminating from labels fuzzy and clinically dubious claims. That would mean manufacturers could no longer say their products relieve "fretfulness," "jumpy nerves," "cold symptoms" or being "under the weather." Instead, they would be limited to the assertions "for the temporary relief of occasional minor aches, pains and headache" and "for reduction of fever...
Changing Fortunes. As the unlikely spies demonstrated, fortunes of the Pacific war could change as quickly as the tropical weather. A daring Japanese sea attack at Savo Island gave the U.S. Navy one of the worst beatings in its history and left Marines on Guadalcanal stripped of support. A year later, the island and its airstrip were dramatically saved-a rescue made famous by Richard Tregaskis in his book Guadalcanal Diary (1943) and by Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Anthony Quinn, et al., in the movie version...
...slogan was LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo up in a bag to make it look like butter?" Restaurants posted a sign: USE LITTLE SUGAR AND STIR LIKE HELL. WE DON'T MIND THE NOISE. Radio stations did not give weather forecasts, lest they help the enemy launch an attack...