Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Hepburn introduced a resolution condemning the Ottawa Government's alleged inefficiency in prosecuting the war. Specifically, Premier Hepburn attacked Prime Minister King for allowing the sale of 1,000,000 bushels of Canadian wheat to Russia, "a potential enemy"; drilling Air Force recruits without sufficient clothing in zero weather; causing great increases in tuberculosis by under-equipping soldiers...
...last year to three* (one in Mississippi, two in Florida, none for rape). These descending figures seemed to point the moral that if Congress lets right-thinking Southern whites alone, they can work their dark problem down to zero...
...Government was just as frantically reinforcing its frontiers as the Belgians and the Dutch. Thousands of reservists called to the colors completely overtaxed the capacity of the Rumanian railroad system. Not only was there no standing room in railway cars, men clung on the outside steps in below-zero weather. Some of them grew numb and were found in the morning dead along the right...
Cold weather, with many temperatures only five or six above zero, will prevail in the skiing country in New England this weekend, according to the report issued last night by the Boston and Maine Railroad skiing service...
...under tents or in temporary shacks in the snow-covered fields, or in the ruins of their homes, shivering with terror and with cold. The stricken area (same latitude as New York City) suffered its worst cold snap of the winter, with temperatures as low as 22° below zero...