Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle of the Atlantic was not waged solely by German U-boats and Allied sub-hunters. During the desperate winter of 1942-43, when Nazi wolf packs were sinking as much as 700,000 tons of shipping a month, the U.S. Navy and the Army Air Forces were locked in their own flaming battle. Poking up the dying embers this week, ex-Secretary of War Henry Stimson devoted the second installment of his memoirs in the Ladies' Home Journal to his own frankly partisan version of this feud...
This week, the cold eased its grip in some places. But amateur weather prophets, amid much labored clowning, generally agreed that ground hogs saw their shadows on Ground-Hog Day (Feb. 2)-and that meant six more weeks of winter...
...black-market set, having blown its tainted bankroll, had crawled back into the woodwork, leaving room for the merely wealthy. The total number of tourists this season was estimated at about 2,000,000 -down 1,000,000 from last winter and about equal to the 1940-41 season. The Miami News Bureau said that spending was 10 to 15% off the alltime high...
Among the FORUM'S few photographs of actual buildings were shots of Taliesin West, Wright's winter headquarters in the Arizona desert, which after ten years is "still under construction" by his students. Wright admits that the white canvas ceiling is likely to leak, but it is "translucent and attractive beyond expression." He considers light and space as important to houses as the roof itself...
...winter Olympics opened with a maximum of angry yammering and a minimum of friendly yodeling. First, everybody mumbled all the fine words about "amity and good will." Then they went on with their scrapping. The Swedes charged that the games were being run for the benefit of St. Moritz hotels and shops. The British, of all people, deplored the emphasis on afternoon tea. The steering wheel of a U.S. bobsled was tampered with, and shrieks of "Sabotage!" echoed through the Alps and re-echoed across U.S. sport pages. But all this was nothing beside the War over the Two American...