Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...federal court of claims commissioner recommended that the Government pay $2,367,950 to Oregon's Tillamook, Coquille, Too-Too-To-Ney and Chetco Indians, for land taken 93 years ago under a treaty never ratified by the Senate...
...Communists the day before, an old peasant woman squatted at a roadside pond unconcernedly whacking at her laundry with a wooden paddle. Behind her on the mud wall of her burned-out hut the Reds, before they were beaten back, had splashed slogans in white paint: "Fight to Nanking!", "Land for the Tillers!" and "Capture the liar Chiang alive...
...Lieut. General Li Mi, commander of the Thirteenth Army Group. He pointed north toward a hill rising like the hump of a razorback hog out of the fields. The truck wallowed off the road through a shallow ditch and followed a telephone wire stretched across the parched, lumpy land, already sown with winter wheat...
...Promised Land. Not all tourists were concerned with shopping alone. The Havana weekly Bohemia added a social note...
They learn about Mike Fink, the great river boatman ("a helliferocious fellow," Davy Crockett called him, "and an almighty fine shot"), and in doing so learn about pioneer life on the Mississippi too. They follow Johnny Appleseed across the land, read about the places he went, and something of the apple industry ("Johnny wasn't very practical," one little girl complained. "He would have gotten apples faster if he'd planted cuttings instead of seeds"). When they come to Joe Magarac, the man of steel (he could squeeze out eight rails of molten steel at once), they study...