Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Germany, he said, "there has been an almost unbelievable recovery." The airlift into beleaguered Berlin, he said, now carried 5,000 tons of food and fuel a day during good weather and 3,000 "under very bad conditions." This would be enough to keep Berlin supplied through the winter; besides, he had wangled 66 additional C-54s for the airlift (see Armed Forces...
...part-time postmaster, gets only $252 a year from the department. "Mostly I work on the railroad. Four of us shovel her clear in winter, and clear out any drift that comes down in summer. I get plenty of time to go fishin'. We don't have any officials, you might say. Depending on who's around, the depot master is mayor...
...week's end enough mines had been flooded to make it necessary for France to import 1,000,000 tons of extra U.S. coal this winter, thus using up EGA credits earmarked for fats, cereals, cotton. The French press screamed for action, and the Queuille government finally decided to grasp the nettle firmly. Forty thousand troops and police reserves were mobilized and ordered to shoot if they met resistance. They seized twelve big mines, and the Commies, intimidated at last, put up almost no fight...
...foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Ottawa, balding Eugene Griffin handles many a special job for Colonel Bertie McCormick. Last winter, when the Colonel heard that an un-American blight was mottling the Ivy League, Griffin toured the Harvard, Yale and Princeton campuses. He proved (to the Tribune's satisfaction at least) that the Colonel had heard right. This fall the Trib got around to Dartmouth. When Griffin arrived, notebook in hand and hatchet up his sleeve, he got a cordial welcome. President John Sloan Dickey had reserved him a room at the Hanover Inn, and offered...
...This winter's program will offer him a chance to expand even further: later offerings will be Rossini's "A Turk in Italy"--never done here before--and "Carmen," which Goldovsky considers a great opera in spite of the depredations of Rita Hayworth and every other woman who ever held a rose in her teeth...