Word: weather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the weather report of clear skies and temperatures in the sixties, only about 25,000 fans are expected to turn out for the 53rd meeting of Harvard and Dartmouth...
Even the press kept up its work. Passengers were making pin money by writing travelogue copy for their hometown newspapers. And on some of the ships, enterprising pressmen put out ships' newspapers, with the latest tips on the weather and briefs of the ships' radio news...
Operating day & night for more than 15 months, in fair weather and foul, U.S; and British pilots had flown 277,264 trips, shuttled 2,343,301 ½ tons of fuel and food into the old German capital. The airlift had taken the lives of 31 U.S. airmen, 39 British and seven German civilians. By the time it finally shut down last week most of the original airmen had long since been transferred home, crammed with the invaluable lessons of the largest air freight operation in history...
Labor strategists would almost certainly not schedule it for the depths of winter, because it is hard to get out the workingman's full vote in cold weather. The Labor Party machinery was not tuned up for an election before spring. The shrewdest observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison did not want a fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing...
Mayfair had kept a weather eye on young Milford Haven ever since Princess Elizabeth's wedding, when he served as best man. An internationally eligible bachelor who in recent years had divided his time between London nightclubs and the sale of radiators in the U.S., the young marquess had amply rewarded the scrutiny by providing Mayfair with its best gossip. Sometime ago one of his showgirl friends shocked London by climbing into the coronation chair at Westminster Abbey for a publicity gag. Several weeks ago the enterprising peer titillated the town again and got his latest business...