Word: monte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wood. In Plentywood, Mont., WPA began planting 260 badly needed shade trees...
Like most museums, the New York Botanical Garden refuses to name its hideaway, lest passionate amateur collectors burgle its treasures. Its 50,000 type specimens include plants gathered by the Lewis & Clarke Expedition, by Explorer John C. Frémont (first Republican candidate for President), the first surveyors of the U.S.-Mexican border...
...weeks ago, when practically the same U.S. and Canadian Kanonen met in a tournament at Mont Tremblant in the Laurentians, the Canadian girls lost the slalom but streaked off with the downhill race. In last week's return engagement, Canada's dashing Wurtele twins, Rhona & Rhoda, who have finished one-two in every downhill race they have entered this year, failed to lead their side to victory. Winner of the downhill, with spectacular runs of 1:02 and 1:01.4 (for the ⅜-mile course) was Dorothy Hoyt of Schenectady, N.Y. Two U.S. teammates were clocked close behind...
First open-air base hospital in U.S. history since the Civil War is the 2,900-bed unit established last month at Bataan by Colonel Carlton Lakey Vanderboget of Fort Missoula, Mont, and run by Colonel James W. Duckworth of Martinsville. Ind. The story is told in LIFE this week by TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby-how workmen bulldozed a road through miles of jungle while bombers attacked them, how engineers set up light plants, built water chlorinators, even changed the course of a river which ran through one hospital site. Highlights...
...cited Wake's Marines for "devotion to duty and splendid conduct at their battle stations. . . ." And Wake went down in the Corps's history with its other bright stars -the battle of the Bon Homme Richard against the Serapis, Tripoli, Trenton, Chapultepec, Samar, Tientsin, Belleau Wood, Blanc Mont, other bloody fields in every part of the world where Marines have fought and died...