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Moscow, Idaho is a pleasant, placid town in the middle of rolling, prospering farmland. There are 14 churches and a red brick railroad depot in Moscow, and the four-story Elk's Club is the tallest building in town. Local products are dried peas (nearly all the world's supply is produced in the area) and students (nearly a third of the town's 10,593 residents are students at the University of Idaho). Nobody really knows how Moscow got its name (it was possibly a gesture of sympathy toward Russia during the Crimean War), and hardly...
...clouds of glowing ash erupted from the cone. Shikura and son, who had been eating lunch on the outer edge of the big crater, tried to run down the slope. So did some of the panicked schoolchildren. They should have run the other way. Stones and ash cleared the farmland on the crater floor, spattered on the rim and outer slope...
...Push. More than half a million acres of fertile farmland were inundated in The Netherlands. The Dutch, who only two weeks ago had proudly renounced the need for any more U.S. economic aid, had been set back an estimated three years. Another 250,000 acres of farmland were flooded with salt water in England, and more than a million left homeless. But the worst North Sea storm in 250 years left in its wake, as well, some stirring sagas of heroism. One such was that of U.S. Airman 3rd Class Reis Leming, of Toppenish, Wash. Said one admiring Englishman last...
...Conant's alleged advocacy of the Morgenthau plan to de-industrialize Germany and make it a farmland, following World...
...railroad track, 20 miles of improved roads, 30 miles of sewers, and a water-treating plant which will handle 254 million gals. of water daily, enough for a city about the size of Washington, D.C. Nearby, 20,000 new housing units are sprouting from the rich Bucks County farmland (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...