Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stettinius this week published a fat, 358-page book, Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory (MacMillan; $3). (Although he signed and sweated over it, the book is actually the joint effort of Stettinius and some 50 others in & out of Lend-Lease, with a final polish by professional writers.) Straightforward, barren of "inside information," the book offers the most comprehensive picture of Lend-Lease to date. It is jampacked with facts, big & little. Some of them...
...more than 20 years tough old Nettie Thompson, a revolver strung from her neck-to use on interlopers-stuck to her barren cattle land on Wyoming's Polecat Bench. She had homesteaded there in 1913 after hearing tales of a ranch hand who traced a suspicious smell to a prairiedog hole, lit his pipe as he peered into it-and woke up in the hospital. He had smelled natural...
...passes are sheer rock faces and whose steep fir forests are gashed with crimson where scrub maple grows in the ravines. In these mountain passes the fall rains break and the woods are always wet. Wenatchee, 20 miles away, is a desert, valley, whose volcanic-ash topsoil was once barren of anything but scrub pine...
...streets were crowded with roving apple pickers. The "apple sheds"-where machines wash, scrub, dry and sort the fruit-ran full blast. Long lines of yellow refrigerator cars waited along the blue Columbia River; at night the switch engines, making up fruit trains, hammered their echoes off the high barren ridge across the river...
...price of such protection might prove too high, in terms of success of the plan. Under the new gold requirements, a dead-broke, gold-barren postwar nation, such as a reconstituted Austria or Czecho-Slovakia, would find it impossible to participate in the plan, unless the U.S. lends them the necessary gold, in effect underwrites the fund from its $22 billion hoard...