Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before flying off to South America on a tennis tour, Big Jake Kramer had a few odds & ends to clean up. One of them was the National Professional Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, N.Y. He didn't feel very keen about it: he didn't dare lose it, yet there was little added glory for him in winning it. And the $1,900 prize money meant nothing to a man who had grossed $87,000 in his first season as a pro. In this frame of mind, Kramer last week nearly got his comeuppance...
House committees that worked on the bill knew what they wanted-and didn't want. Indiana's Forest A. Harness (House Rules Committee) has charged that public health careerists are trying to force "socialized medicine on America by use of federal employees and Government money." What the U.S. wants in WHO, said he, is "some practical man, rather than some Government career...
There had been no rain for a month and the woods were tinder-dry. But promising-looking clouds were drifting over the great forest fire north of Sudbury, Ont. Kenneth G. Pettit, Canadian government meteorologist, hoped they were "supercooled" (well below freezing temperature). If so, he might precipitate them artificially...
...from 12,000 ft. on a cloud near the fire. A few minutes later he saw rain falling from the cloud's base. A fairly heavy fall over the fire area lasted for 25 minutes, was followed by a two-hour drizzle. The Dry Ice shower, the Ontario Forest Protection Division reported, "had a dampening effect, but not an extinguishing effect upon the fire...
Another Part of the Forest. Lillian Hellman's feral study of family life in the Deep South; acted, tooth & nail, by Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, and a strong supporting cast (TIME...