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There are 42 inches of snow in Franconia Notch with four inches of powder over a breakable crust. Intervale has 23 inches of granular...
...committee asked no ruralite what his favorite programs were, but each household was asked whether it kept on hand any packaged cereals, coffee, cleanser; canned soup, milk, tomato or fruit juice; wrapped bread, kitchen or toilet soap; toothpaste or powder, face powder, lipstick or rouge. These are prime radio-advertised products. When the report was published the answers to this question were not included. The explanation: "It was believed . . . that pride would tend to inflate the figures of usage, particularly of products like lipstick and rouge, face powder...
...inquisitive, CBS, whose supplementary survey used the same interviewers, quizzed 10,273 of the same people, last week let go all answers it could get. These would have CBS customers believe that fully four-fifths of all rural homes use packaged soap, cereal, coffee, cleanser; 92% use toothpaste or powder, 77% wrapped bread; that 89% of rural women use face powder, 66% lipstick or rouge. Least used were canned soup (49%), canned tomato or fruit juice (46%), condensed milk (37%). For CBS, the interviewers found out that 80.9% of the families questioned listened to CBS's ace, Major Bowes...
...ounce of salt, tor maintaining the water balance in body tissues; the same quantity of brewers' yeast, for vitamin B; one-twelfth of an ounce of cod-liver oil, for vitamin A; half a lemon twice weekly, for vitamin C. If two ounces of dried skim-milk powder are available, brewers' yeast can be omitted. Other corrections: growing children need more cod-liver oil and skim-milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges are not available, the committee suggests that scurvy can be avoided by steeping any nonpoisonous green leaves in boiling water...
...Warren, N.H. Cloudy Fair 24 Breakable cr. Waterville, Me. Fair Fair 12 Corn snow Waterville Valley, N.H. Cloudy Fair 38 to 60 light cr. Whitefield, N.H. Cloudy Poor 10 Wet Wolfeboro, N.H. Fair Good 14 Soft Woodstock, Vt. Cloudy Poor 15 Laurentian Mts. Can. Cloudy Good 58 Powder Quebec (Lac Beauport) Can. Cloudy Good 72 Powder...