Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like an oasis in the desert came the April 5 cover of TIME. After a great procession of military men and political leaders, it was a tremendous relief to see the Mephistophelean face of Orchestra Leader Beecham on that issue. Let's have more like it. The artists have been too neglected in this war time. . . . Let the poet, the dramatist, the composer and the painter join the parade across the front of TIME again...
...Howland, our Atlanta correspondent, telling all about General Patton's colorful days at Fort Benning. (This was dated October 28, 1941 and filed away for future use. Another long report was filed nearly a year ago by correspondent Wilmott Ragsdale, on how General Patton was whipping our new desert warfare battalions into shape in the California desert...
...thick, more than 560 ft. high, 3,500 ft. long-will back water 35 miles up the Sacramento, Pit and McCloud rivers. Along with the Friant Reservoir on the San Joaquin River, this man-made great lake will irrigate 1,000,000 California acres which would otherwise be largely desert...
...Front," an Army Signal Corps product dealing with the current doings in North Africa, it will be worth your while to sit through almost any sort of accompanying picture to see it. It's the story of the tanks we've heard so much about in the desert warfare theatre. It's crammed full of tank battles, dog-fights and air raids, and from the looks of things, the photographers must have been riding atop the tanks from start to finish. It's that close...
...from the training grounds: it would be nice if everything happened as punctually under the Tunisian Patton as it had under old Hurry-Up-and-Wait Patton at Fort Benning, or if Tunisia were as flat and dry just now as the western training reserve, the triangle from Desert Center, Calif., to Yuma, Ariz., to Searchlight...