Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like sleet out of a grey winter sky, gloomy economic reports pelted out of Washington. The December industrial-production index drooped 7% below the level of December 1956. Personal income fell off in the steepest monthly drop since the alltime peak of last August. Year-end unemployment edged up 200,000 to 3.4 million to make it 5.2% of the labor force, the highest December rate since the recession year...
...visitors-six times the 1949 total-enjoyed the other-century feel of picturesque streets, cheerful native servants, and dress-for-dinner luxury in a sun-washed tropical setting. Last week the pastel shops of Nassau's Bay Street were shuttered light at the height of the winter season, the colony's 16 major hotels were closed and empty. In a matter of days all but 24 of some 3,500 tourists fled home by cruise ship and plane. As they cleared out, a company of British troops flew in from Jamaica and a frigate steamed in from Bermuda...
Dartmouth College has imposed a limit of two guests per student for Winter Carnival in an effort to prevent a repeat of last year's overflow turnout...
...just an exchange of individual scholars rather than of formal delegations and will seek the same kind of normal interchange as it has with scholars of other countries." The University has already invited a Russian archaeologist to Cambridge, and expects him to spend four to six weeks here next winter...
...flying Capital Airlines for January-March period. Capital has been paying $1,000,000 a month on $70 million debt for its 60 Vickers Viscount turboprops. But company lost about $2,000,000 on its 1957 operations because of rising costs, got payments delay to tide it over slack winter-travel season...