Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow the winter snow had vanished. Street vendors were selling daffodils at 3 rubles each. Gourmets could buy tiny hothouse cucumbers, small succulent leaves of early lettuce, tiny radishes and tomatoes. Women discarded fur hats and thick wool shawls for bright head scarves. The sun came out. The Russian Pashka (Easter, a week later on the Julian calendar) had arrived in Moscow...
Babe Ruth, who spent most of the winter in a Manhattan hospital after a neck operation, flew to Florida for two weeks in the sun, played nine holes of golf in 45, and caught a 50-lb. sailfish. He was back in baseball at 52-as "consultant" to the boys' baseball program that Ford Motor Co. runs with the American Legion. Besides his salary (undisclosed), the onetime home-run king gets a shiny new Lincoln...
...airlines, this winter was one of the worst. On one of its dark days, dour Donald W. Douglas rolled his first postwar plane, the DC-6, out of his Santa Monica plant. A fat-bellied big brother of the famed DC-4, the plane was sold to United Air Lines, Inc. and its boss William Allan Patterson, who looks and sometimes sounds like a small, precise adding machine. Patterson thought that his new buy was a good plane. And his line badly Heeded such a plane. But he had no intention of putting it into service until he was sure...
...straddling enterprisers, but like cow-pasture barnstormers. They had canceled flights without telling passengers till they appeared at the airport; they had lost their luggage; when bad weather closed in, they had set passengers down in out-of-the-way airports and left them to shift for themselves. The winter weather had been terrible. In one grim period in December, so had the plane crashes. Many a traveler was browned off by the airlines; many were scared...
...Pattersoned a commonsense pattern for all U.S. airlines. He trimmed down his payroll from 13,700 to 12,300. (Few were fired, but those who quit were not replaced.) As he sweated off the wartime fat, some of the travelers who had been scared away by last winter's crashes began to come back. Last week, United was in the black again. The dismal airlines skyscape suddenly brightened. Was the worst over? No one could say for sure. But Pat Patterson thought it was. Coming from him, that sounded more encouraging than the cheery prophecies of an optimist...