NORTH AMERICA IN GRIP OF EXTREME COLD WAVE
Received Mondav, 8.45 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb.' 9. The trans - continentai Canadian Pacilic railway serviee has resumed after the longest main line snow blockage in Canadian railroad history. Gangs liave been clearing the snow for sixtv hours. Ofiicials decline to predict when the majority of the branch iines in Sowherii Saskatchewn will be opened. The extrenie cold wave which has been blanketing the North American Continent continues with gale-foree winds in the east tearing down telegraph wires and snowstornis stranding motorists and deiayiug Irains into New York as mucli as tvvo hours. Centnu Florida reports the (irst snow in 2h years and the citrus crop normaliy worth many million dollars is threatened, while 240,00(1 workers are idle due to the shortage of in'dustrial gas caused by the cold wave temperatures. New York has been ratiging from live degrees to as low as the twenties in the past few days.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 February 1947, Page 5
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