Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smart varmint, but I can't share the professor's love for him. The Western ranges have to carry several million head of cattle and sheep as well as antelope, deer and elk. We simply don't have enough grass to produce meat for America, ERP, and the coyotes that range all over the West . . . J. McK. PARDEE Secretary...
...America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). "Is Our New Rent Law Fair...
Collateral. Resort put out such tours as a $91.25 eight-day all-expense trip (New York to Lake Placid), and $785 for a 16-day tour through the West. Soon Resort was flying to Canada, the West Indies and Central America under temporary permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board...
Absolutely Super. In Orwell's 1984, Britain is no longer Britain. It is merely part of the superstate Oceania (the British Isles and Atlantic Islands, North and South America, southern Africa, Australasia). From 1960 on, Oceania has been ceaselessly at war, sometimes as ally and sometimes as foe, with Eurasia or Eastasia, the only other existing powers. All three of these monolithic superstates have the atom bomb; none ever uses it because continuous, wasteful, indecisive warfare has become economically essential-"to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living...
John Gunther's ambitious Inside reports (Europe, Asia, Latin America, the U.S.) made lively reading for two reasons: 1) Gunther was driven by an insatiable hunger for facts and impressions; 2) his style was as breezy as a tabloid newspaper's, as terse as a telegram. A hardly avoidable consequence of this hop-skip-and-fly journalism was that Reporter Gunther frequently fell into glibness and superficiality. When he might have been mulling over the information he had just collected, he was already on the run to collect more...