Word: acree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The mercury stood at two below zero one morning last week at Pine Camp, the U.S. Army's 107,000-acre training area in northern New York. Three feet of snow blanketed the terrain, dotted with scrub pines. At H-hour, 11:30 a.m., 15 potbellied Fairchild Packets roared...
Marseille, a city of small buildings (the largest is nine stories) had never seen anything just like it. Neither had any other town. Under construction last week was a glassy 17-story apartment house, perched lightly on stilts, to stand in the middle of an eight-acre park (traffic will...
Five days a week, he goes to his office from his Wimbledon half-acre; weekends he stays home to read, think and write. "But the leaders that get talked about," he says ruefully, "are the ones I write at deadline." Bombed out during the war, his Economist now lives in...
To feed the growing empire, Lyons built a 70-acre plant near London to process coffee, tea, custard powder, chocolate. Lyons, which now employs some 30,000 people, sells an average of 770,000 meals and 680,000 cups of tea and coffee a day, turns out 2,000,000...
Thus another U.S. badman was sentimentally memorialized last week in a ballad freshly recorded for the jukebox trade. Carl Shelton, a country gunman like Jesse James, once held the rackets of all downstate Illinois in fief. His Prohibition Era battles with other gangs took a toll of more than 40...