Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, after three and a half years of war-with the dust of Africa, the heat...
...evacuees Poston (a conglomeration of cheerless wooden barracks on the unshaded desert) seemed like a concentration camp. The sun was cruel; dust was everywhere. The hospital had little medicine, food was often badly cooked; there was overcrowding, lack of privacy, discomfort. The camp's overworked administrative staff had been thrown together as hastily as the buildings...
...here to start work. But instead I asked for the loan of you chaps, and you arrive the next day in two little trucks. The next thing I know you have hired all the natives with two arms and two feet for miles around and a big cloud of dust rises over the field and when it settles three weeks later . . . there I see my runway! God, do you wonder I love...
...biggest unit of the world's biggest home movers is, quite naturally, in movable Los Angeles. Son Martin established it in 1895, with a one-horse wagon that carried the furniture of land speculators over a dust-choked, rutty road from Los Angeles to San Diego. Time : five days...
Last week, the still unfinished Savage report was gathering dust-on State Department desks. Reasons for the delay were a State Department secret. Apparently, the U.S., instead of promoting the great market that cheap power might create in China, was unwilling to admit: 1) that China, like the U.S., must make her postwar plans now; 2) that China will one day become a great world industrial power...