Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...animals have come back with a rush to the atom-blasted area. The crater itself is thick with tumbleweeds and lively grasshoppers. There are rattlesnakes, lizards, pack rats and mice in the vicinity-none of them, apparently, the worse for their hot habitat. A cottontail rabbit has a home in the crater itself. The antelope (which local stories said had been frightened into Mexico) are back in the great arid valley...
Bran Bait. Stay-at-home grasshoppers are common all over the U.S., but the migrating types from the range lands do the most damage. After they reach maturity they rise in roaring clouds, fly hundreds of miles and utterly destroy any crop they settle...
Keener came home with more than salutes; he also had $2,000,000 worth of contracts in his pocket. This week, starting a second jaunt, Sam Keener was looking forward to more salutes during his stopovers in the world's principal cities. Out of it, Keener hopes to snag additional millions in new business...
...Indianapolis speedway 18 years ago, husky, young William Richards drove his racing car over the side of the track, smashed up, and was carried away with a broken pelvis. "When you're hurt and broke," Richards later related, "you naturally come home." Back he went to his native New England, looking for something less dangerous. Said Richards: "I stumbled into farming...
...Home of the Brave. A combat case history that slugs hard at anti-Negro prejudice (TIME...