Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There'll be a hush over London as the last few minutes of the Old Year tick away. Then, from the four orange faces of Big Ben will come the first chimes of midnight, slow and reverberating, creeping from radio sets into every waiting home in the land. A new energy stirs. In the shadowy silence of St. Paul's Cathedral the Watch Night congregation will bend more fervently. At Piccadilly, amid the hooters and factory sirens that will mingle with all the city's bells, young men and girls will surge around Eros, wildly yelling, singing...
...summer of 1944, on a shuttle mission to Russia, Captain Richard E. Willsie's P-38 was so badly shot up that he was forced to land in a Rumanian pasture. Lieut. Richard T. Andrews, seeing Willsie go in, landed his P-38 in the same field, and after the damaged fighter had been set on fire took off again . . . with Willsie sitting on his lap. They made a safe landing in Russia...
...Collectivization of 60% of all arable farm land...
Even in Hitler's Germany the infatuation for medals, titles and uniforms never reached the peak it has in the proletariat's promised land. On the kolkhozy (collective farms), a visitor is apt to meet a Znatnaya Doyarka (Distinguished Cow Milking Woman). One of the latest additions to the new Soviet aristocracy is Honorable Coal Miner E. P. Baryshnikov, whose picture (see cut) was published in a recent issue of Ogonek (Small Flame...
Texas' Governor Beauford Jester was so boiling mad he told newsmen, "You can't print what I think." The underwater lands are one of the juiciest holdings of the Texas General Land Office, which uses the proceeds to help finance the state's schools; 1947's royalties from submerged oil drilling were $14,800,000. Just before Tom Clark filed suit, the board had collected $2,055,709 from private drillers for leases on 79,000 underwater acres...