Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the winter it takes some time to get mail from the States. From Fairbanks, the northern terminal of the railroad, the mail is carried by auto (weather permitting) to Chatanika, about 30 mi.; from there to Circle, about 130 mi., it is carried by horses, a five-day trip; from Circle to Coal Creek, almost 55 mi., the mail is carried by dog team up the Yukon River, in 2¼ days. The dog team has been on time every week this winter, even in snow storms or 50°-below-zero weather. Due to the difficulty in getting...
...Fortington has been in the U. S. since 1920. He has a home in England, an apartment in Manhattan and a 1,400-acre estate in Pawling, N. Y., where he has the biggest apple orchard and the finest pheasant preserve in that part of the State. Whenever the weather permits he goes to work by way of the Newark Airport in one of his three planes. He flies a little himself, though his personal pilot for years was the late Jimmy Collins. He owns a private salmon river in Labrador where he usually spends six weeks every summer...
Southwestern Nebraska is a country full of weather. In the winter it freezes, in the summer, fries. Its gulch-pocked plateaus are the scene of alternate blizzards, droughts, tornadoes, dust storms, cloudbursts. Every once in a while a Nebraskan loses his patience, goes outside to shake his fist at God. Last week there was cause aplenty for fist-shaking...
...Fresh as the Breath of Spring," showing the same girl perched on a trunk. ("Always fair weather aboard these trains...
...column measure, tapped out headlines on special Remington portables with extra-large letters. Editors then pasted stories and headlines upon heavy cardboards the size of a newspaper page. Staff cartoonists inked in column-rules, dashes, decorations. Clippings from back numbers were pasted into place for the mastheads, weather reports, departmental headlines, etc. The whole was photo-engraved, cylinder plates cast, sent to press...