Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back of the Kremlin talks was a question: How well would the airlift supply Berlin during the winter months...
...Anglo-U.S. strategists have planned their winter airlift on the basis of a 4,000-ton daily average. On a minimum basis, 1,400 tons of food and 2,000 tons of coal will sustain West Berlin. The coal will heat hospitals, prisons, courts, schools, and welfare establishments. If the 4,000-ton average is maintained, the extra 600 tons will consist of medical and welfare supplies, newsprint, and extra coal (for a few essential industries and emergency heat in private dwellings). Berliners will be colder than last winter and possibly colder than the winter before...
...like the set for a high-budget Warner Brothers' production. Under the palms, military attaches in fancy uniforms and foreign ambassadors wearing bright-hued sashes danced Paraguayan polkas with the dark-eyed daughters of Asuncion society. Workers in pink shirts and red bandannas paraded under the unseasonably hot winter sun. The troops showed off their best uniforms and equipment, while the new President, standing in an open car, dashed about the capital with a bodyguard...
...Work." Last winter AEC agreed to launch another major assault on the power problem. Then, under urging from the military (who had become more & more interested in atomic propulsion for ships, aircraft, etc.), AEC decided to centralize its power projects at the Argonne laboratory near Chicago. Under the supervision of hardheaded, 41-year-old Director Walter Zinn, Argonne will choose between three different approaches to a power reactor. Construction on one of them will be started early next year...
...Winter Week. In the middle of the hot weather slump, when 52nd Street nightclub owners looked glumly at rows of empty tables and cried the blues, Nick's joint on West Tenth Street was having what the surprised musicians themselves called a "winter week." The iron-man stunt was giving Bobby (who, like all hot jazzmen, is an authority on hard times) some memorable paydays. ABC pays him $165 a week for a 40-hour week for 20 hours of actual playing. Grace Rongetti, Nick's widow, pays better than that, complaining only when Bobby gets tied...