Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side, small Western Pacific led all the rest. With its main line from Salt Lake City to San Francisco jam-packed with shipments to the Pacific war zone, profits rocketed to $15,205,421, two and a half times those of 1942 and 22 times those of 1941. Against this, the rise in New York Central earnings to $62,729,230 v. $49,082,182 in 1942 seemed comparatively modest, and the sharp drop in Pennsylvania profits to $85,500,000 ($101,468,792 in 1942) seemed almost poor...
...best parts of the job is the chance it gives him to take the lead in safeguarding and building the future of the West. California used to snoot its smaller Western neighbors. But Governor Warren called the first conference of the governors of the eleven Western states at Salt Lake City last May. A third meeting will be held soon...
Swiss on the shores of the Lake of Constance have a good barometer of German affairs. They look at the Germans living on the German parts of the lake, in and around the old bishop's city of Konstanz (pop. 33,000). Recently, a Swiss newspaper on the border went through back numbers of Konstanz' local Bodensee Rundschau, found 3,785 obituary announcements for 3,575 men, 210 officers killed on the Russian front between June 22, 1941 and Dec. 1, 1943. The oldest, Artillery General Foehrenbach, was 70; the youngest, a Hitler Youth volunteer, was 17. Forty...
Farther north, Red armies hammered at Vitebsk. New thrusts sprang out of Nevel. Striking across dense forests south of Lake Ilmen, Russian troops had torn a ten-mile gap in German lines, cut an important railroad. A drive north of the lake threatened the great stronghold of Novgorod. Somewhere, the Stavka hoped, the German line would burst under the fierce pressure, let the Red flood through...
Marrow & Spice. Friends of the author thought she resembled the small, rosy Lucie of The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. She was English to the marrow, spoke in a spicy North Country accent, was deeply attached to her Lake Country. She often went out haying with the farmers, wearing buckled Lancashire clogs and wide straw hat. She never went out of England. Old English china, silver and furniture were her hobbies...