Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategist, romped up & down the aisle of the plane reciting Casey at the Bat. Elmer was the pitcher, the umpire, a bleacher fan, the great Casey himself. Candidate Stassen, exhausted by the Oregon campaign, sat back and roared. But when Lawyer Ryan finally intoned: "Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright . . . But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has 'Struck Out,' " Candidate Stassen subsided into pensive silence...
...Soviet Union Beal became a hero who lectured throughout the land, wrote pamphlets on the Workers' Paradise. But in three years paradise had begun to look like a very different place. Wrote he: "I found just the conditions against which I was fighting over here . . . The workers were hungry ... in rags. I never saw the equal of that misery in this country...
Long Drumfire. The fiercest battle of the week was fought in the no-government's-land of Jerusalem, which U.N. had once marked for international control...
...have organized the 'Palestine for Arabs' movement," the letter said. "Our intention is to recruit volunteers to join the 'Franklin D. Roosevelt Legion' to fight in Palestine and protect that land for its rightful owners, the Arabs...
...Land of Earners. Arvida's other aspect is industrial. The great aluminum plant (the world's largest individual producer) is a mile long, half a mile wide. There habitants who have forsaken the logging camps and rock-strewn farms work in vast Dantesque chambers among massive vats and electrolytic furnaces. The metal they turn out goes into pots & pans, airplanes, building materials, cigarette holders, poker chips, electric conduits. Soon, Alcan will build an aluminum bridge across the Saguenay...