Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no unequivocal answer. But the U. S. public knew that something was slowing down defense. What that some thing was was answered in scores of ways by columnists, reporters, editorial writers. But, by & large, the nation's interest was in the forest, not the trees. The average citizen knew that because of shillyshally, lack of compromise between capital & labor, failure to see what was ahead, France had ceased to exist, Poland was in chains, Britain had its back to the wall. What was wrong with U. S. defense...
They both had good English accents. They carried papers to prove that they were Dutch refugees from the Nazis, but they did not play the refugee game. They hid in a cave on a lonely stretch of coast, or slipped from dark barn to thick forest to empty warehouse, peeking, listening, taking notes. At night they crawled into lonely hedgerows, unpacked two small leather cases containing a wireless transmitter, and sent whatever they knew...
...Chicago met last September to elect a successor to the late Bishop George Craig Stewart, this struggle came into the open. Chicago traditionally has a High-Church bishop, though its richest parishes (St. Chrysostom's, St. James's, St. Paul's in Chicago; Holy Spirit, Lake Forest; Christ, Winnetka) are Low-Church. High-Church candidate was a handsome monk, the Right Rev. Spence Burton, Suffragan Bishop of Haiti. Low-Church candidate was a handsome rector, Dr. Dudley Scott Stark of St. Chrysostom's. In 17 ballots, neither could muster a majority. Nor could a middle-reader...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES: Four sides by Benny Goodman have finally come out on COLUMBIA, and they're everything you could ask for. First coupling is by the band: Nobody, and Henderson Stomp. Nobody is a swell pop tune sung by Helen Forest, who seems to be more and more influenced by Billie Holiday. The arrangement is very good; ideal for dancing. Henderson is typical orchestration by the arranger for whom the tune was named. Very unpretentious stuff, but the kind that really kicks. Scoring of brass against reed passages reminiscent of the famous chase chorus on Stealin' Apples. Benny...
Thus did the Atlantic Coast Line launch the 1,500-mile trip of its "Live Stock Development Special." Object: to build Florida's cattle and forest industries, up the State's cash income, and help A. C. L.'s traffic. Less extravagant than it looks, the trip costs A. C. L. only about $5,000. An other $5,000 (for exhibits, advertising, etc.) is borne by Florida's Department of Agriculture. The third partner is University of Florida's Agricultural College, which contributed three months of hard preparatory work, a staff of 20 specialists...