Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Germans discovered that only sacrifice squads were left in the $500,000,000 Maginot fastnesses, in they poured through a gap gouged out at the Saar. They also crossed the Rhine at Neuf-Brisach, where floods from a dynamited French canal dam failed to deter them. Their bombers concentrated on rail traffic behind the fortresses and reported destroying 30 French railway cars, sending several loaded with munitions high in the air. Southward German motorized and nonmotorized columns "competed with each other in tremendous marches," said the exultant German communique...
...with an enthusiasm for the sport so convincing that if the reader has the smallest particle of the watersportman in his nature, he'll immediately make for the nearest body of water, boat on back and book in hand and teach himself how to leap over a 12-foot dam or provision for a three weeks' paddle...
Thrifty Christ Kutras ran a Greek restaurant at Redding in California's deep, fertile Sacramento Valley. He put his profits into real estate outside of town. When construction began in 1938 on the $36,000,000 Shasta Dam, devised to stabilize Sacramento Valley's water supply, engineers built a ten-mile belt line to convey 10,000,000 cubic yards of gravel to the world's No. 2 dam. For their gravel pit they chose Christ Kutras' tract of land...
...Monday. By Friday, with sale prices not yet in effect, half the shirts were gone. Equally astounding have been some of his results in other lines. One morning last summer he briefly mentioned that the drinking water had a peculiar taste. By 4:30 the same afternoon the Hollywood dam reservoir had been partially drained and workmen were ready to clean it. Wiley frankly tells his adoring audience he won't answer their fan letters (about 2,500 a month), bases his success on two rules: 1) accept no "catchem and killem projects"; 2) always tell the girls...
Second prize has ben given to Julian 10. Agoos '40, whose picture of "Column," a young boy, is notable for its clarity and realism. "Boulder Dam," showing the white concrete contrasted with the rugged mountains in the background, has won third prize for John B. Breed...