Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Barren Carey, youthful (29) national secretary of C. I. O. and apostle of labor as a cooperative and producing group...
...eight Spanish colonies, started in 1939, five have already folded. Reasons: disease and barren land. On the remaining three are settled 400 of the 1,300 Spanish refugees in the Republic. On the northern Atlantic shore is the Sosua colony where about 250 refugees from the Nazis live, supported largely by charitable U. S. Jews...
...Weber, in spite of the fact that he was the first U. S. modernist, and is still going strong, is bearish on the whole issue. Says he: "Modern art is a barren field whose soil needs spiritual humus to turn it over for the planting of new seeds...
Michigan-born, son of a mining engineer, Flaherty used to spend months with Indian guides in Canada's north woods, prospecting for his father. He turned explorer in 1910, for ten years wandered about the barren islands of subarctic Canada, living with Eskimos. On his later expeditions he took along a motion-picture camera, during the long winters at home with his wife cut and spliced film, trying to piece together an Eskimo travel picture...
...photography, Hydro gets at the problems back of the New Deal's Columbia River power project in the Northwest: denuded forest slopes, timber markets cut off by the war, abandoned farmlands that thirst for water. A propaganda picture, Hydro shows how Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams will irrigate barren fields, provide power for new defense industries, put jobless men to work. Best shots: the wild, glistening waters of the river undammed, royal Chinook salmon fighting their way upstream...