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Word: weathers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't snow today, there may be a "light sleet." If there's no sleet, there's bound to be a little rain. Or it may just stay cloudy, windy, and what the Weather Bureau chooses to call "seasonably cold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow, Rain, or Sleet Predicted for Today | 12/20/1961 | See Source »

...Harvard Student Agencies reports that its annual Europe by Air Christmas charter flight has been cencelled. The Agency has been having other types of bad weather. A spokesman for the HSA said that increasing costs and lack of participants forced the cancellations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow, Ice Make Roads Slippery; Flights Cancelled | 12/18/1961 | See Source »

...going to show up. Artemus Ward once said, about 50 years ago, 'I am not a politician and my other habits are good also.' " Arriving in Bal Harbour, Fla., for the annual convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., he greeted Big Labor's leaders with a casual weather report: "It's warmer here than it was yesterday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

Wheat, for example, gets high supports, and U.S. wheat farmers are clearly enjoying life. In wheat-growing Finney County, Kans., Farmer Frank Oldweiler got perfect growing weather through the summer; in July he harvested one of his best crops ever from his 1,200 acres. With the profit, Oldweiler has air-conditioned his home, bought a hundred head of cattle, increased his life insurance, and scheduled a two-week family vacation in California instead of the usual Christmas holiday in Wichita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: Down on the Farm | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

With dispiriting consistency, unemployment has been averaging just under 7% ever since last January. But in November the number of unemployed abruptly dropped to 6.1% of the work force. Unseasonably warm weather had reduced the usual winter layoffs in outdoor jobs. And the general economic upswing was creating more jobs for auto workers, office help, sales clerks. More important, some of the hard-core unemployment at last began to give way. Of the 3,990,000 Americans still looking for jobs, the number who had been out of work for 15 weeks or more declined last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Hardening the Soft Spots | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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