Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memory, Hoover spoke. He recalled leaving West Branch at the age of ten to live on his uncle's farm (his father died when he was six, his mother when he was nine), the long round of farm chores, the unending making of provisions for the next winter. "In those primitive days," he said, "social security was had from the cellar, not from the federal government." He recalled how he earned his first money: "I entered into collective bargaining by which it was settled that I should receive one cent per hundred for picking potato bugs in a field...
...motor trip across Canada is an endurance test. Only 1,945 out of 4,300-odd miles are hard-surfaced. In winter snow blocks the Rockies' passes, shuts off even the most adventuresome motorists. Not until 1943, when the last link was finished in Ontario, was there even a makeshift road across the Dominion. Even then, it was three years before any motorist made the trip from sea to sea-twelve days of bumps, jolts and dust...
Because this route cannot be kept free of snow in winter, an alternative line through Yellowhead Pass (3,717 ft.) has vociferous boosters. So does a southerly route through Crowsnest Pass. To western provincial government, the important thing is the road, not the route...
...Panama Canal has trebled and quadrupled. At the order of Congress, the Canal Zone's governor has prepared a six-volume report on how to protect the vital Atlantic-Pacific short cut from atomic bombs. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, on the hunt for alternate canal routes, last winter flew all over the country between Colombia and the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico...
Canon City (Eagle Lion). Last winter, in the most sensational jailbreak of the year, twelve more or less desperate convicts escaped from the state penitentiary at Canon City, Colo. Within three days they were all either recaptured or killed (TIME, Jan. 12). This was a subject for a first-rate movie. Canon City is not that good, but it is exciting, intelligent and unpretentious. It begins as a straight documentary, presented with gratifying simplicity and quietness, then gently eases in among the professional players, who re-enact the break and the man hunt...