Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report was being spread that Michigan was about to break up and desert Vandenberg. The story, under an eight-column headline in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, confronted delegates hurrying out to Convention Hall. Walter Hallanan, national committeeman from West Virginia and a staunch Taft man, announced that he would vote for Dewey instead...
...trouble deepened he got little aid or comfort from his seconds. After he left Sun Valley, Idaho, he stopped at the desert hamlet of Carey (pop. 600), was handed a wreath, asked to dedicate the airport. None of the traveling White House secretariat bothered to check on the name of the citizen for whom the field was being named. Gravely, the President began: "I'm honored to dedicate this airport, and present this wreath to the parents of the brave boy who died fighting for his country...
Angry Wind. At the little frontier town of Oudjda, on the edge of the eastern Moroccan desert, anti-Jewish rumors had been sweeping through the bazaars as angrily as wind-whipped sand from the desert. Young Jews, whispered the Moslems, were slipping across the frontier at night to Israeli recruiting bureaus. Another rumor: a Jewish football club from Casablanca was collecting money in Oudjda for Israel's army. Jews spread counter-alarms about the Arabs, and tension rose...
...plots, has sapped the goodness from the soil. In the current Harper's Magazine, William Vogt, chief of the conservation section of the Pan American Union, warns that "unless there is a profound modification in its treatment of the land, the greater part of Mexico will be a desert within 100 years." (The peril, warned Vogt, hangs over all Latin America...
High over a California desert, the Air Force's famed "Flying Wing" bomber ran into trouble. An eyewitness said that it seemed to explode in the air. Then it plunged down to the sagebrush, killing its crew of five. At week's end, nobody seemed to know what had gone wrong...