Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flying west, he was grounded at Denver. He got a seat in another plane, but halfway to Salt Lake City the weather ahead forced the ship to return to its field. He took a third ship-and that was grounded for four hours at Albuquerque. Thus, at Los Angeles, at last, 16 hours, 5 minutes behind schedule, arrived Joseph Bartlett Eastman, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation...
...Married a Witch (Veronica Lake, Fredric March, Robert Benchley, Cecil Kellaway; TIME...
...Glass Key (Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd; Time...
...Lake Erie & Lake Champlain, 1813-14. Disputes over British blockade orders directed mainly against Napoleon led to the War of 1812, in which there was nothing for the U.S. to attack except Canada; the key to Canada was the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes line of water communications. Hoisting his large blue battle flag with the white letters DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry outsailed and outgunned the British on Erie. On Champlain Captain Thomas MacDonough anchored his ships in such an advantageous position that when the British tried to attack him, he put them...
Since Mormon history is a book in itself, Stegner has concentrated mainly on the civilization and the society that was built up on the banks of the Great Salt Lake. Polygamy played an unimportant part, contrary to popular opinion. The great ideal was a brotherhood and a sharing of worldly goods, built into a simple, ascetically Christian, agricultural life. This was the greatest strength of the Mormon colony. This is what attracted people from Europe and even Hawaii to walk in groups of hundreds and thousands across the country, pushing their few worldly possessions ahead of them in wheelbarrows...