Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day, as his personal contribution to the food-saving program, he announced that he would cancel the five customary state dinners at the White House this winter. When asked by a group of editorial writers whether the U.S. would get any credit for its foreign-aid efforts, he replied: "We're not doing this for credit. We are doing this because it's right and necessary...
...tons, or only about 25% above last year. Just how much grain Russia would be able to spare for bread-politics abroad depended on whether Joseph Stalin fulfilled his long standing promise to lift bread rationing at home. At any rate, on the hungry Continent, only Russia watched winter's approach without apprehension...
Last week, in one of Britain's darker hours, a British fund to relieve distress caused by last winter's floods received a letter. It expressed "solicitude for the unprecedented harshness of the weather in a countryside which we will always remember as your great and pleasant land." Enclosed was a check for ?1,000, signed by Haile Selassie, now once more secure on his throne in Addis Ababa (where the sun shines almost every day of the year...
...best remembered for his theories about the influence of climate on civilization. He argued that as civilization develops, it moves toward colder regions. The earliest civilized people hardly ventured away from the warm lands of Egypt and Mesopotamia; their technique of life could not cope with even a mild winter. The Greeks and Romans knew more about battling winter, and benefited from the mental stimulus of the north Mediterranean climate. After the invention of the chimney and other body warmers, civilization throve best in North Europe and America, where the cold, changeable climate kept minds alert. The next great extension...
...pinch was on. The first to sound the alarm last week was Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.'s A. L. Nickerson, who warned that fuel oil might be so short this winter that it would have to be rationed in the East. Said Nickerson: "The consuming public [should realize] that a new oil-burner installation does not carry with it an assured supply of fuel." Monroe Jackson Rathbone, president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), "Big Jersey," went even further. He suggested that all U.S. refineries allocate the supply of oil to retailers...