Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With an anecdote Reporter Tomara answered Question No. 2. Proceeding by bus from Ankara to Beirut, she was delayed by a breakdown in the middle of the salt desert of Konya. From the hovels of a dirt-poor Turkish village, the populace swarmed around. Out stepped "an elderly man whose head was wrapped in a dirty rag-possibly a turban, the wearing of which long ago had been banned by the late Kamal Ataturk. The old man, who had been taken prisoner by the Russians in the last war, addressed me in primitive Russian, filling out gaps in his sentence...
Odlum's Meditation: Two months ago Tycoon Odlum went out to the desert ranch which his wife (No. 2), Aviatrix Jacqueline ("Jackie") Cochran, owns at Indio, Calif., 130 miles east of Los Angeles. He had thinking to do. Since end of 1929 U.S. investment trusts have suffered dollar & prestigewise (TIME, March 25). Atlas alone had conspicuously beaten the game. Its asset value per common share had risen from $5.06 to $12.80-153%. It had distributed nearly $60,000,000 of its peak assets, plus around $20,000,000 in dividends. What was left in the kitty was largely profit...
Last February the committee named Odlum returned from the desert with its mind made up. At a Curtiss-Wright meeting one day, Odlum asked whether the other 14 committees had a solution. They hadn't. He asked for a day, returned with a description of a hypothetical "X Corporation," told how a marriage with hail of "X Corporation" would solve Curtiss' problem. The directors agreed, but they did not tumble until Odlum spelled out the name of "X Corporation": ATLAS...
...ancient skulls, put them on sticks and frightened the servants by poking them through the windows. Once, during a Peruvian uprising, she disappeared from home, was found sitting on a curbstone 100 feet from the scene of a bloody battle. When she was eight, she rode out into the desert alone, required a posse to find...
...newspaper man doing counter-espionage work for the Loyalists in Madrid.* Rawlings' job has got him down. He meets an American girl, rapes her in a fit of drunken violence, then falls madly in love with her. Against the pleas and warnings of his superiors, he plans to desert his job and clear out with the girl. At the last minute he is free to do so, because of a Loyalist order releasing all foreign volunteers from service. Then, from a sense of honor and devotion to a doomed cause, he decides to stay...