Word: blizzarding
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Last week Will Rogers flew across the continent, landed in Newark during a blizzard. It was the day after the U. S. Army began to fly the mails. Mr. Rogers paid tribute in his daily syndication to the courage of the Army pilot who, although new to the job, that day flew mail over the same route through the same blizzard. Five days later, seated in the Waldorf-Astoria, Will Rogers commented to newshawks on the wreck of a United Air Lines plane in Utah: "Grand feller, that Lloyd Anderson. I'd flown with him several times and with...
...heavens reached down and smothered the North Atlantic coast under a blanket of snow from 21 in. to 50 in. deep. For a full week the normal activities of civilized life all but ceased. Since that time, all winter cataclysms in the east have been compared to the historic Blizzard of '88. There were memorable storms in 1893, 1910 and 1920. But last week brought two storms which lashed New England to its knees, knotted its icy grip on New York and New Jersey and jolted the entire Southeast. One swept up from Cape Hatteras, the other from...
...Setting aside another $2,000,000 to pay 50,000 men to dig his hard-strapped city out, Mayor La Guardia moaned: "I get the jitters every time I see snow." Because all city life did not come to a standstill Brooklyn Druggist Otto Raubenheimer, a member of the Blizzard Men of '88, jeered: "A mere flurry! This snowstorm is a carbon copy of the blizzard of '88, and a third or fourth carbon copy at that...
...office of the United States Weather Bureau, can trace the path of a storm with surprising accuracy but is forced to confess ignorance when asked why this winter has been so unusually severe. However, it is interesting to delve into the history of an individual storm such as the blizzard which has plagued Bostonians yesterday and today...
...postal duty was ferrying a Douglas bomber to the Army's western airmail base. He got lost in the Idaho badlands, crashed and burned to death near Jerome. Same day two more reserve pilots were delivering a plane to the western base when they ran into a blizzard near Salt Lake City. Ice coated the ship, bore it down out of control. So inaccessible was the spot in which they died that the pilots' bodies had to be brought away in a sleigh...