Word: groves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first chapter was written in 1865, when seven bearded Swedes drifted out of the Big Horn Mountains, halted in a cottonwood grove to pan the gravel of an icy foothill creek. It was rich with coarse gold. They built a cabin, went feverishly to work. Three days later a band of Sioux swept down on them. Only two prospectors escaped. They headed for the Oregon Trail with three baking powder cans of gold, spent a fretful winter at Fort Laramie, then started back to claim the creek's treasure. They were never seen again...
...position, which G.I.s dubbed Coconut Grove, was reduced to ruins, and the ruins were sticky with Japanese dead. The measure of the enemy's desperation was in his tactics: one sortie was made by advancing so close to U.S. lines that the artillery range could not be shortened for fear of hitting U.S. troops. That enemy drive was stopped by machine guns, and the enemy dead that day were estimated at 500. But no position constructed like Coconut Grove could withstand the artillery pounding indefinitely, and at week's end it was mopped up. The 77th swiftly pushed...
...same hurricane leveled many a Florida citrus grove. Shipments of Florida oranges will be cut 20%, grapefruit, 43%. There were few lemons in the Eastern U.S. food markets...
...fancy look of some hotels that the Army has taken over for its redistribution centers makes G.I. guests gasp. After a fortnight of top-priced splendor ($30 a day for two) at Asheville's Grove Park Inn (cost for soldiers, nothing; for soldiers wives, $1.50 a day) Corporal and Mrs. Harry Paczynski of Erie, Pa. were still pinching themselves. Said Mrs. Paczynski, after wandering through the huge, hushed lounge of the great grey stone pile: "Sometimes I wonder if I'm dreaming...
...Grove Park Inn is one of 48 resort hotels-at Asheville, Miami, Lake Placid, Santa Barbara, etc.-now used as redistribution centers for soldiers returning from battle. Last week the Army got started on two more centers. For Negro troops, it took over the Hotel Pershing on the border of Chicago's Negro district, got ready to move into the Hotel Theresa in Harlem...