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When the decrepit old highway petered out, the party left its de luxe Dodge busses, mounted little horses and rode to a promontory above the mighty Yellow River, sunk in its age-old canyon. They crossed the swift waters on the rope planks of a swaying, weathered suspension bridge, climbed the winding trail beyond to Kenanpo in Shansi, perched like a feudal castle on a cave-pocked cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Escorted Adventure | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...Editor Clyde W. Warwick of the Canyon News (circ. 1,500), Democratic Chairman for Randall County, announced he would raise no party funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Straws | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...Mouat, Metals Reserve Co. cleared away the hillside, honeycombed it with six levels of tunnels, perched a mill twelve stories high in the canyon below. Mouat would supply two-thirds of U.S. needs, and never mind the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONTANA: Ghost Town, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...Poet and Peasantvon Suppe Suite from "Rodeo" Copland Warsaw Concerto Addinsell (Piano: Leo Litwin) Brazil Barroso Saturday Evening, May 29 Overture: "Russian and Ludmilla" Glinka Concerto in F Gershwin (Piano: Jesus Maria Sanroma) Suite from Ballet: "Sylvia" Delibes Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Saons "On the Trail," from Grand Canyon Suite Grofe Sunday Evening, May 30 No concert

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Week in Music | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

...California, an unusually large number of big trout have been planted in the tumbling streams of the San Gabriel Canyon, only 25 miles from the heart of Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wartime Fishing | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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