Word: gopher
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...Gopher plant never actually opened. A monument to something or other, it stood by, complete to the last broom, as insurance. Last week, the U.S. did not even need that insurance...
...rich farmland at Rosemount, Minn. Farmers were hustled off ("Don't you know there's a war on?") before they could harvest crops already planted. In came the Du Pont Co. with a big job: to build and operate the DPC's $69,000,000 Gopher Ordnance Works...
...long before the personnel could move in, U.S. powder requirements were drastically reduced. British and Russian powder plants were not bombed out, as the Army had feared. The cost of Gopher was cut almost in half, the six powder lines were cut to three. By the time these were finished last fall, powder plants were already being closed around the nation...
...slamming a hollow tree behind him after skipping over the meadow in nothing flat. Like Dopey, who would always come running over the bridge fifty yards behind his outfit, there is the duckling that stops to test the temperature with his toe before swimming after the gang, and the gopher who slides down the hill on his fanny while his pals scamper on ahead. Walt, old pal, this is life as l see it. The furriest, plumpest, liveliest achievement of modern impressionism. Bambi and his old lady may be a couple of drips, but the little guys aren...
...snuffling obbligato. From Indiana the program wandered to a Georgia vegetable garden, a poultry house in California, a wheat field in North Dakota. As usual the show was neither cute nor corny. It aimed to tell the farmer about his business, got down to earth as speedily as a gopher...