Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Springfield enthusiasts who wanted a terrain at their doorstep opened an illuminated two trail run with a tow January 28, south of the General Edwards Bridge on the Island Pond Road. This city also offers skiing at the Franconia Golf Course and skating to music at the Forest Park Chalet...
Hydro (U. S. Department of the Interior) was filmed by a onetime MARCH OF TIME director, Gunther von Fritsch. A slick job of cutting and photography, Hydro gets at the problems back of the New Deal's Columbia River power project in the Northwest: denuded forest slopes, timber markets cut off by the war, abandoned farmlands that thirst for water. A propaganda picture, Hydro shows how Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams will irrigate barren fields, provide power for new defense industries, put jobless men to work. Best shots: the wild, glistening waters of the river undammed, royal Chinook salmon...
...canopy. Max Haas got that one too. He has twice won Leica awards for his pictures-once (in 1936) for a shot of German Fighter Max Schmeling looking out of the dirigible Hindenburg, once (in 1938) for a candid shot of a woman spectator's rump at a Forest Hills tennis match...
...years between the two armistices France made a national shrine of that spot in the Forest of Compiègne. Trees were felled, the clearing carpeted with soft grass. A monument was erected-a sword thrust into a limp German eagle-and on the base of the monument was chiseled this inscription: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine. At the spot where the car had stood a great granite block bore the words: Here on the Eleventh of November Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished...
Only one thing was left in the clearing: the statue of Marshal Foch. Perhaps, because the Marshal was a soldier, the Nazis meant to leave him there and let the forest grow up around...