Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passenger gazed last week at four-color advertisements of the new, promised land, he was bothered by a small, nagging doubt. There were radios in every room, built-in nurseries, movie theaters, lounge cars with Astra Domes, and trim hostesses. Were these wonders for him, or just for the cross-the-country glamor trade? Would he still have to stand in line 20 minutes or more for a seat in the diner? Would trains still lurch like a wounded moose on jolting roadbeds? Perhaps what the passenger really wanted was less fluorescent and chromium luxury and more plain, old-fashioned...
...most memorable of moon festivals occurred in the bitter years when Tartar invaders ruled the land. Revolt brewed against them in 1368. To break it, the alien despots posted guards in the foremost Chinese households. When the feast-day came, families gathered and all went as usual-until mooncakes were served. When the feasters broke into the pastries, they found slips of paper with the message: "Kill the Tartars in your household." All rose in mighty unison. The aliens were driven forth and the peace of the Mings descended on China...
...York for the occasion: "I've seen you do in five minutes what it would take me five weeks to do with my horse." Already Rockefeller's Empresa de Mecanizaçāo Agricola, S.A., (Agricultural Mechanization Co.) had enough orders for pulling stumps and clearing land to keep it busy for months...
...first glance, Fire in the Morning is one more novel about little foxes-post-bellum Southern variety. Years back, old Daniel Armstrong (of the hardy and gallant Armstrongs) had been cheated out of a large inheritance of land by Simon Gerrard (of the grasping, industrious Gerrards). One family blights the land with its deceit and vulgarity; the other hopelessly defends the old code...
...finest silver fir still stands (thanks to the fact that a contractor's saw was once too small to fit its girth)-in Parnell's old garden at Avondale at Wicklow. But in the rest of Eire, trees are grown on only 1.6% of the land. Eire is, indeed, the most treeless country of Europe. Why? To a Dublin meeting of a dendrologists' organization called Men of the Trees, Lord Dunsany sent a caustic reason. "I never knew an Irishman," he wrote, "having access to a platform who could not make an admirable speech in favor...