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...snapped pictures of rhododendrons in bloom five weeks before their time. Here & there, jokers were at work. Enthusiastic residents of Scarborough, in a frenzy of excitement over the notes of the first cuckoo, were crestfallen to discover that the trills of good cheer actually came from a toothless street cleaner named Hezekiah Johnson. "I wait until a crowd gathers," admitted Johnson. "Then I go into a nearby park and cuckoo. They all take it in. I used to do a nightingale," he added, "when I had my teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Winter Proud | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Lamont workmen used blowtorches. Mayor Curley used MIT's flame, throwers, Boston used every available street cleaner and a condescending reporter from the Globe. The railroads used well-paid volunteers from Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Ice Blitz Daunts Southbound Traffic as Plows, Blowtorches Fail | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

Young's Way. Passengers needed little selling. The practically smokeless diesels provide a cleaner, smoother ride than steam. And railroads found that the high initial cost of diesels (the $600,000 is twice that of a steam engine) is offset by more efficient use of fuel, fewer layups, lower repair costs and less roadbed damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Switch | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...convertible, a home laundry, two round trips to Hawaii, a trailer, a $1,000 diamond and ruby wrist watch, a television receiver, radio-phonograph, $2,000 in cash, an airplane, a $1,500 beaver coat, a home workshop, a gas refrigerator, a gas range, a home freezer, a vacuum cleaner, suits and topcoats for a family, a $1,000 diamond ring, a heating boiler, a complete housepainting, a houseful of furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hushabaloo | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Ottawa, strawberry plants bloomed and lilac bushes burst their buds. In Winnipeg, it was pussy willows. As Torontonians curiously watched their city experiment with a new machine that sucks fallen leaves from gutters like a vacuum cleaner, newspapers reported that Oct. 20 was the hottest in history. The high of 76° topped the 1884 record by a full five degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Indian Summer | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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