Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samneua is doomed. If, as expected, the Communists launch a major new offensive in October's dry weather, they will probably conquer much of northern Laos...
...Sahara at the period of greatest heat," said a French official. The heat was of two kinds-the summer sun, which lasts until mid-September, and the September U.N. General Assembly session, where the French face a closer vote on the Algerian question. January seems like better political weather...
...Batista was strolling along Ciudad Trujillo's seafronting Avenida George Washington, minding his own business, when who should come along, astride a motor scooter, but Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, also on the lam. According to Batista, they chatted about no counterrevolutions, just the weather and other pleasantries. Observed Batista: "Perón has got a good sense of humor and he was very friendly...
Lithe and energetic, crewcut, always hatless and usually coatless in the bitterest weather, Rhoads directed his campaign against cancer with a crusader's zeal. He trod on many toes, was accused of being arbitrary and autocratic, of regimenting his 300 elite researchers and their supporting forces. Dr. Rhoads believed that the public must understand cancer research to support it, talked freely to the press. Subject of a TIME cover (June 27, 1949), he was photographed at the helm of his sailboat. This was what a willful band of little men in the New York County Medical Society had been...
...first week of the steel strike, it showed few of the strike's effects. As the steel strike started, unemployment was down by 238,000 from June to 3,744,000. But an unusual rise in the number of unemployed farm workers in July because of bad weather, and large numbers of young workers moving in and out of the labor market, raised the rate of unemployment to 5.1% from 4.9% in June. The July rise was caused by "temporary factors," said the Labor Department, which expects unemployment to continue to decline in the fall...