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...settled down on the grimy industrial towns of Pennsylvania's Monongahela Valley one day last week, blurred the bleak outlines of steel mills and foundries, and softened the glare of great furnaces. At sooty Donora (pop. 13,500), it was particularly heavy; the hills stand close and no breath of breeze had reached its streets. The haze thickened as locomotives and the high stacks of U.S. Steel's huge Donora Zinc Works sent fumes into the still air. But nobody paid much attention to the smoke-laden mist. The zinc plant had been operating for more than...
...vote, which cost him New York. The President even made heavy inroads into the traditionally-conservative Republican Mid-West. Old Guardism failed to produce substantially for Dewey and it failed to produce substantially against the Democrats. This failure strongly indicates not only that the future of Old Guardism is bleak, but that an intelligent conservatism must jettison it to survive as a decisive political force in this country...
Both contestants freely admitted the faults of their candidates. Cherington termed his defense of Dewey "a bleak task indeed," while Beer admitted that President Truman had "committed himself right into the gutter" on such issues as civil rights...
...bleak Ungava,* the stunted tamarack had turned burnt amber and each morning light snow frosted the tough caribou moss. For the engineers probing the biggest iron ore deposit since Minnesota's Mesabi, it was time to call it a summer. Day after day a little Norseman seaplane dipped down on to Quebec and Labrador lakes, picked up men and supplies, moved them back to the main base at Burnt Creek (pop. 190). This week the twelve drills were operating close by Burnt Creek. Next week they would be silent, and the year's work would...
When the 1,268 delegates and a couple of thousand party workers swarmed into the bleak Coliseum in Ottawa's Lansdowne Park, the party had still to slough the ill-fitting skin worn during six years of John Bracken's bumbling leadership. In his farewell address, pedestrian John Bracken argued that to get anywhere, the Tory party must become "a crusading party dedicated to the welfare of the ordinary man and woman." That was not the mood of the convention. Said Acting Chairman M. Grattan O'Leary (of the Ottawa Journal), as he shut off the polite...