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...themselves out of their white entombment, proclaimed their plight to the world. Street traffic stalled completely, until 20,000 shovelers dug narrow channels through the drifts. Schools all closed when attendance dropped to 20%. The snow even blanketed crime: not one case was docketed in Morals Court during the blizzard; only six robberies were reported to tho police. Abandoned automobiles along the streets were encased in soft bulgy white outlines. Railroad yards became chaotic as switches jammed. The Illinois Central put a long string of freight cars out along its lakefront line to serve as a snow fence. The city...
...Chicago's previous one-storm snowfall record, 14.8 inches, was set last December. New York's most famed blizzard, with 20.9 inches fall, occurred March...
Bishop Perry was chosen amid the whining of a great Chicago blizzard (see p. 13) so tempestuous that only 84% of the 134 bishops eligible to vote could make their way through it. On the seventh ballot, after unofficial conferring, he received 69 votes, one more than the necessary majority. No one was surprised...
Buried. Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, famed polar flyer; during a snowstorm at Hatton, N. Dak. His body had been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...
...usual "March Blizzard" tucked south-east England under a twelve-inch snow blanket last week, stopped air services to the Continent, forced the Admiralty to keep coastal guns firing at Dover, because above the screech of the gale ordinary fog signals could not be heard...