Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Franco's G.H.Q. tersely admitted that Madrid General Miaja was making "the most violent drive the enemy has ever attempted." According to the Leftists their advance swept westward of Madrid in a swath ten miles wide and ten miles deep. They claimed to have taken six strategic towns, including Brunete, while according to the Rightists this objective was never quite reached. On the northwest side of Madrid the Rightists remained entrenched in suburban University City, their "foot in Madrid's door." After five days of what all agreed had been some of the hardest troop fighting...
...hoppers to the square foot, millions to the acre, trillions to the county. Government scientists and reporters crunched around the countryside in automobiles, killing hundreds of 'hoppers at every turn of a wheel. Against some houses and barns the insects were piled in drifts a yard deep. Newsreel cameramen put their lenses at ground level for close-ups which made the horde look like a fantastic invasion from another planet...
...which they live, and planted it with jute. Like cotton, this crop requires arduous cultivation in the hottest season of the year. Most fun for broiling Bengali is "retting"-soaking the cut stalks in pools to ferment the gum out of the fibres, after which the farmers work waist deep in water at stripping the fibres from the stalks...
...DEEP SOUNDINGS-Alan Cor by-C axton...
Alan Corby is the closely-guarded pseudonym of a famed U. S. adventure writer. Whether he took an alias because he was afraid Deep Soundings would queer him with his usual Boy Scout audience, or because he wanted it to make its own way as a serious literary work, is hard to say. On the literary side the book is a straight throwback to Kipling and Jack London- a story involving the hazards of convoying merchant ships during the War, with a hero who, through duty and red-hot blood rather than patriotism, faces death as manfully as love. Added...