Word: wind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most spectacular exhibit of the cold wave were westerly winds which whipped the Great Lakes. Toledo, squatting where the Maumee River empties into Lake Erie's western end, was seriously threatened by a water shortage when the wind blew the river water out into the lake in such volume that the river level fell nine and one half feet, within inches of the bottoms of Toledo's pump intakes...
With $9500 already banked, the Harvard Committee for German Refugees will wind up its drive for funds by sending out an appeal to the Alumni," said Phillip Ragby, Secretary last evening...
Under a bitter and gusty east wind blowing out of Siberia and gathering momentum as it shrilled across Russia, Europe's highly domesticated inhabitants shivered, caught colds, froze to death, were snowbound and frostbitten. London, Paris and Berlin reported the coldest December weather in 47, 61 and 80 years respectively. Worst cold was in Scandinavia and eastern Europe: Norway reported 25° below zero Fahrenheit. Poland 27, Russia 45, and Novo-Sibirsk, Siberia...
...straits even in fair weather, the German Republic collapsed under the weight of the 1929-34 depression in which German unemployment soared to 7,000,000 above a nationwide wind drift of bankruptcies and failures. Called to power as Chancellor of the Third Reich on January 30, 1933 by aged, senile President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Hitler began to turn the Reich inside out. Unemployment was solved by: 1) a far-reaching program of public works; 2) an intense rearmament program, including a huge standing army; 3) enforced labor in the service of the State (the German Labor Corps...
...Fair architects had taste in using their natural site. By laying out their timber and plaster buildings as a windowless "walled city," completely enclosing an L-shaped set of avenues and courts, they made a sheer 80-foot bulwark a quarter-of-a-mile long against the trade wind that blows off the Pacific. To keep the wind out at the west entrances, blue-eyed, sandy-haired Architect Ernest Weihe, fussing around with an electric fan, feathers and a cardboard model, devised "wind baffles"-a series of 80-foot vertical slabs placed like converging flys on a stage, with open...