Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public, long conditioned to the principle that faster travel means greater danger, had all but forgotten the disastrous airline crashes of last winter; U.S. airliners were taking off once again with full passenger lists. Then, like spring lightning, disaster struck, again & again. In 24 hours of the Memorial Day weekend, U.S. commercial aviation lived through the blackest hours of its lively history...
Recordings have been the final factor in the band's rise into big business this year. With the issue of the Ivy League Album in mid-winter, the office in the basement of Payne Hall has become a beehive of activity. "Over 3000 albums have been sold," claimed Manager W. Jay Skinner '48, "and we had to turn down a request from Holy Cross to make recordings of their songs at their own expense...
...hold a number twelve ranking in National Junior competition before the war, and travelled to Florida last winter to participate in the Sugar Bowl tournament. In 1942 he reached the quarter finals of this tournament before bowing to Billy Talbert in extra sets...
Last week a faltering step was taken to ease the shortage. The International Monetary Fund, which was set up to help members meet "temporary disequilibriums" in their international payments, had its first customers. The severe European winter had forced France to import large amounts of U.S. wheat, with a consequent drain on its supply of dollars. France got $25 million by paying francs to the fund. The Netherlands, also short of foreign exchange, put up guilders for $6 million...
...Even so, "the world's available export supplies . . . are too small to provide the additional tonnages needed by importing countries to keep basic rations at the winter level, which itself was too low for comfort or for health and good working energy." That means that the peoples who were hungry last winter will be hungrier this winter...