Word: meade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What made the East's dry weather most irritating to farmers was that on the other side of the Mississippi, from Kansas to the Pacific, rainfall had averaged anywhere from 11% to 133% above normal. There had been floods in California, Arizona, New Mexico. In Lake Mead, above Boulder Dam, was stored enough water to provide every inhabitant of the U.S. with 67,000 gallons, supply New York City for nearly 27 years...
...PATRIOTIC MURDERS - Agatha Christie - Dodd, Mead ($2). Dead in London: Hercule Poirot's dentist, Amberiotis the Greek, a faceless lady in a trunk. These lead the great French detective to a callous and murderous egomaniac...
...Neufeld will have one very potent ace up his sleeve in the 1000 yard run, where the veterans of the cross country team are showing themselves as fit indoors as they were on the hills. Led by Bill Palson, harrier captain, the distance men include Marshall Hughes and Bob Mead, all three of whom are capable of repeating the clean sweep with which they floored the Exonians...
...THORNDYKE'S CRIME FILE-R. Austin Freeman - Dodd, Mead ($2 50) Reprints of The Eye of Osiris, The Mystery of Angelina Frood, Mr. Pottermack's Oversight, full-length and always good. Also included is an excellent essay on the art of the detective story...
DEATH AT THE HELM- John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). A yacht piles up on shore with a man and woman freshly dead of poison in the cockpit: she, the wife of a frozen-faced K.C.; he the son of a Purity Society officer. Inspector Jimmy Waghorn figures it all wrong until Dr. Priestley finally appears...