Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When A. F. A.'s Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead read in trade papers last winter that his union was incompetently and bossily run, he demanded that Four A's either give him a lollipop or a licking. Four A's, handing out no lollipops, investigated, last month issued eight charges against A. F. A., cited it for trial last week. Some charges: that A. F. A. was not run democratically; that it withheld some of its records from Four A's investigators; that it had used for administrative expenses $12,997 it had collected from benefits...
During this retreat Groesbeck was not thinking of winning victories. He was thinking of saving his army. All through the winter, as he shuttled back & forth between Washington and Manhattan, Groesbeck wondered how he could get out from under, how he could forestall public agencies from building competitive transmission lines to his customers' doors...
Armchair travelers last week could go orchid hunting in South American jungles river hunting in Tibet, spend a winter in a jampacked Eskimo igloo, or the rest of the summer trying to absorb a fraction of the facts packed into the new Guide to Alaska, latest of the Federal Writers' Project series...
...rocky gorges. What finally defeated his quest for the source of the Salween was whiskers. Colleague John Hanbury-Tracy had grown a beard. A Tibetan official who had been in India and knew that Britons shave thought he was a Russian spy, and the expedition was held up until winter made the trip impossible. Though he failed to find the source of the Salween, Explorer Kaulback was comforted by the thought that "it still remains to be found by someone." He might be comforted by the further thought that in sharing his nostalgia and making mysterious Tibet as real...
Last week the harvest began in Wisconsin and Michigan. Hundreds of Peter Pipers-itinerant pickers, farm laborers, owners of small cucumber patches-worked their way on soil-stained knees between rows of tender vines, carefully pulling off little fellows to be made this winter into gherkins, midgets, tiny-tims and other one-bite numbers, bigger fellows to be brined into dills and koshers...