Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast with the hunger marches of that era, most arrived by train or bus; some even came by plane. Said a Scottish miner: "We are not hungry men asking for food. We are angry men asking for self-respect." Getting into Politics. They pointed out that though warm weather has boosted employment in homebuilding and heavy construction, the actual total of unemployed (702,000) in Britain was still 250,000 higher than in the previous March, and was actually rising in the worst-hit northern areas. Another rally next day by some 5,000 teachers demanding a wage raise showed...
...little Alpine ski resort of Zermatt rakes in a lucrative $10 million from visitors each year, but the authorities there know that customers are notoriously fickle; overnight a touch of bad weather, bad service in the hotels or an ugly scandal can send hundreds of tourists off in a huff to St. Moritz or Davos. Hence the reluctance of Zermatt's townsmen to talk about the curious wave of illness that began popping up three months ago. They stolidly ignored word from a Zurich physician that a patient just back from skiing in Zermatt was down with typhoid fever...
...into a storm that climaxed in an operating loss of $2,400,000 in 1961. Then, Matson called in a new skipper, Stanley Powell Jr., 46, rounding out his first year as president, proved last week that he has begun to bring the line back into clearer sailing weather: he reported that Matson earned $2,249,000 in 1962, and had the best showing in six years on its all-important run to Honolulu...
...Weather Bureau reports that today will be cloudy and cold with scattered thundershowers...
...England's persistently foul weather has added its own contribution to the list of Crimson uncertainties by keeping the varsity in Briggs cage for the entire month of March. Unable to conduct a single genuine practice session on a lacrosse field, Munro must somehow prepare his team for the Spring opener with Hofstra next Monday...