Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideal flying weather. The morning was dazzlingly clear, the ceiling and visibility unlimited, and a brisk, 20-mile-an-hour wind blew from the northwest. As New York waited to welcome Astronaut John Glenn, American Airlines' Flight One-nonstop to Los Angeles-screamed down the runway of International Airport at Idlewild, consuming a normal 5,000 feet of concrete before it left the ground in a perfect takeoff. Two minutes later, the flight of American One was over-and so were the lives of its 95 passengers and crew members. It was the worst tragedy involving a single plane...
Poisons Out. The day begins with John A. Gambling, who can out folksy all his competitors in handing out homey chatter on gardening and pets, giving advisories on schools closed by weather, reading notices of church suppers, rummage sales and ice cream socials. Almost singlevoicedly, Gambling comes as close as anyone can to transforming New York Radioland into a single, small town community. He plays occasional records by genteel orchestras and hearty sing-along groups. When his show goes off the air at 9 a.m., there is no more music on WOR for the next seven hours...
...since the economy started climbing again twelve months ago. Government statisticians reported January dips in industrial production, personal income, retail sales and housing starts. A few pessimists began openly wondering whether the recovery had already run its course. Optimists answered that the worst thing wrong with January was the weather. Most economists blame January's slide on weeks of unrelieved snow in the Midwest, frost in the South, and torrential rains in the West. And for once, that rationale made sense even to those who believe that weather is often overrated as a business factor...
January's glum weather kept nearly 700,000 employed Americans away from their regular jobs (v. fewer than 200,000 in January of 1961). As a result, the average factory work week melted from 40.4 hours to 40 hours; this, in turn, helped to bring down industrial production and personal income, both of which are determined largely by the length of the work week. Thinner pay envelopes-and the weather-also kept people away from the stores...
...Korean war, Puller led the landing at Inchon. Then the Chinese Communists came swarming across the Yalu, and once again, the marines handed the toughest job to Puller. He was put in command of the rear guard that was to cover the marines' retreat in subzero weather from the Chosin reservoir. Ordered to abandon equipment and vehicles, Puller not only kept everything he had but collected many trucks that the Army had abandoned along the way. He loaded the wounded into trucks and Jeeps, strapped frozen bodies on bumpers and hoods, and set out to fight...