Word: storms
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...under way with almost no help at all from private investment. The corporate securities markets did $1,666,805,000 of refundings during eleven months of 1940, but raised only $660,799,000 of new money. As the year ended, Wall Street, its best barometer, was huddled in the storm cellar with Confidence...
Meteorologists explained that a low pressure area trapped over southern New Mexico by a high pressure to the north and northeast caused the storm last week. Temperature two degrees higher would have stopped the ice. A high wind would have broken the spell. But for 48 hours nothing happened. The region seemed deserted. An airline pilot making the first flight over the Panhandle two days after the storm reported that there were no signs of life, no cars on the highways and no trains seen operating, only a few lights showing in Amarillo's business district...
...their limbs. By midnight three-fourths of the town's telephone circuits were useless. By 1:30 the next afternoon the power lines were down. Western Union lost 800 poles, 2,000 crossarms, had 100,000 wire breaks. In Amarillo 100 telephone poles toppled (throughout the storm area, 2,200). Radio towers went down. When electric power failed, Amarillo's water supply went dry, for 10,000,000 gallons stored underground could not be pumped to the surface. Amarillo's fire department, answering many false alarms, had only enough water for 15 minutes of real fire fighting...
Though cheap eaters, baby turks are delicate, cannot get their black feet wet without dying before Thanksgiving. Hence some growers tie on mittenlike rubber boots, or keep the birds off the ground, on wire. Fortnight ago a bad storm froze $10,000,000 worth of turkeys in Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa. The storm boosted prices slightly, yet at 26-30? Thanksgiving turkeys were less than chicken...
...students of this and several other colleges have been living in a cultural period which is typified by a reaction that inevitably follows a period of disastrous war. Like the clear that follows the storm, the literature of the Thirties came forth with painfully cold facts . . . The wreckage of the storm was everywhere: debts that no one had any intention of paying; a Europe carved up into an Economic Impossibility; an America of plenty with starving millions; white crosses...