Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oregon Trail. Life in the West had destroyed his digestion and given him chronic insomnia. Arthritis crippled him. A nervous disorder "engulfed his mind." He had published The Conspiracy of Pontiac. It was 14 years before he could publish the next volume of his "history of the American forest...
Married. Carol Montgomery Stone, 23, actress daughter of venerable Playactor Fred Stone; and Robert William Mc-Cahon, 26; in Forest Hills, Long Island...
...mostly to blame for this state of affairs was Henry Wallace himself. Perhaps he was congenitally unable to break through a forest of agricultural statistics and theories, show himself to the U. S. people. That he never troubled to show himself to the Democratic Party was wholly natural: to Henry Wallace the Third, parties and party ties were unimportant to the point of nonexistence. Last week, after he was nominated, he casually explained that his daddy was a Republican, and that out of filial loyalty he had remained one until 1924. Then he campaigned for Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt...
...Shea did not believe them. A U. S. Forest Service official, he had been puzzled by large numbers of fires destroying timber from Louisiana to Virginia. Half of all U. S. forest fires occur in the South. Convinced that nine-tenths of them (nearly 60,000) were started on purpose, he launched an inquiry in the field of social psychology. He found a "typical area" of 440,000 acres in the southernmost spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains inhabited by 1,800 families. The forest people there admitted starting fires, but the reasons they gave were evasive or absurd...
...weeks each September that cozy little strip of Long Island between Forest Hills and Old Westbury becomes a paradise for U. S. sport fans. At Forest Hills (except during war years) they may see the world's top-flight tennists, at Westbury the cream of the world's poloists, at Belmont the best U. S. thoroughbreds-and here & there, now & then, the world's greatest golfers...