Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across a land where mild, springlike days were beginning to soften winter's deep freeze-and where a business slump has thrown more men out of work than in any other year since World War II-Canadians for the second time in a year are about to choose a new government. Bidding for a stronger mandate, after only nine months in office, is Tory Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker, 62. His leading challenger in the March 31 election: Liberal Leader Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, longtime Secretary of State for External Affairs in a government that ruled Canada...
...balance of cultural trade between the U.S. and Europe is tipping in the U.S.'s favor. In the winter months the famed European soloists still keep coming to the U.S. But in spring and summer, U.S. performers by the hundreds-most of them native-born, some adopted-take off on a music trail that may lead not only to Europe's capitals but to the Belgian Congo and the rim of the Arctic Circle. This summer offers two special magnets for U.S. attractions: the Brussels World's Fair (highlights: the American Ballet Theater, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Louis...
...cozy with management." The top rulers in the union and management are old cronies. Together, they had streamed from the Eastern European ghettos to the garment district sweatshops 40 years ago; together, they still play gin rummy by summer and bake on the Miami beaches on vacations in winter. And together they fixed the wage scales. When a maker brought out a new dress, a joint management-union conclave decided what share of the wholesale price would go to the union's pieceworkers for cutting and sewing...
...pump operates by electricity, uses a motor compressor and coils much like a refrigerator to keep the house at comfortable temperatures. In summer it draws the hot air out of the house through ducts, runs it over a refrigerated coil, circulates the cooled air back through the house. In winter, the pump draws in the cold outside air, picks up heat from it by passing it over an even colder coil; the heat is then transferred by fluid to a compressor, which raises the fluid to a high temperature, passes it to a second coil used to heat inside...
...times as many heat pumps will be sold in the next three years as were in the last seven years. Biggest obstacle to widespread acceptance is the fact that the pump is still too expensive to operate in any but mild Southern climates, where little heating is needed in winter...