Word: glaciality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picking the place, Navy bigwigs showed the sea-wisdom of an old salt, the esthetic sense of a crackajack travel agent. Of glacial origin, Lake Pend d'Oreille is a favorite summer resort for the Northwest, is one of the largest U.S. fresh-water lakes (35 miles long, six to 15 miles wide). At either end, broad grass-lush prairies melt into smooth bathing beaches; on the east, steep cliffs stand sheer from the water, mount on up into the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains. The lake is fish-chocked: trout, land-locked salmon, whitefish. In summer, scores of pleasure boats...
Into Dutch Harbor, in ships from Seattle, poured men looking for the good money being paid labor. They worked until the glacial rains soaked into their livers, then fled south again. Standing labor report from Unalaska Island: one crew going, one crew working but not liking it, one crew coming. They kept arriving, unprepared, ignorant of the rigors they had to face. Army & Navy men stayed because they...
...there evergreens in the South, oaks in the North? Botanist William Spinner Cooper of the University of Minnesota studied fossil tree pollens in peat, concluded that "in America the climate following the glacial epoch was warm and dry, with a return to a cooler moister climate during the last few thousand years." Thus the cone-bearing evergreens of the Southern U.S. are relics of the glacial invasion (which halted at the Ohio River), and the North's oaks and other hardwoods are relics of the warm postglacial period...
Having narrowly escaped permanent freezing by the vetoed Fulmer bill (TIME, Aug.11), the vast U.S. cotton surplus last week began to melt, sent a glacial trickle towards a potentially vast war market. The Department of Agriculture announced that 1,500,000 bales of Government-owned, 1937-crop cotton are now available for export at 13¼ a lb., 4? below the current market price...
...Nichols, called "One Hundred Per Cent" because of his policy of keeping his First National Bank of Englewood, Ill. on a 100% liquid basis, hated the New Deal with a glacial hate. To depositors he said: "Go bury your money in a tomato can in your vegetable garden." He quit making loans, spurned new checking accounts, wrote down $24,000 of Federal Reserve stock to 10?, and siphoned out of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank some $2,500,000-most of his bank's reserve-which he stuffed in deposit boxes. Increasingly bitter and violent about the New Deal...