Word: montes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ready for the Season. In Missoula, Mont., the U.S. Forestry Service gravely announced that a grizzly bear had broken into a cabin, sneaked off with a hunting knife, an ax, a box of cartridges...
RALPH DEL MONT...
...Flax. The nation was enormously rich, enormously productive. Employment was at a record 60 million level. U.S. farmers paid off their mortgages, rolled in money and contemplated more fine crops, more high profits. In Dutton, Mont., a farmer outbid professional buyers for $93,000 in municipal bonds. In California's Imperial Valley, a flax farmer bragged of a profit of $84,000 on his last crop...
Most of the rest of Chevigny's summer scripts, he says, will be in the tall-story tradition. Tall stories come naturally to him: he is a native of Missoula, Mont., on the edge of Bunyanland. In 1943, after a successful career in West Coast radio, Chevigny lost his sight. He learned to dictate his scripts, which he once punched out on a typewriter, has since sold 550 scripts for the Morton Downey show, 97 for the U.S. Treasury, 15 free-lance scripts, five short stories, two articles. Betweentimes he wrote a book, My Eyes Have a Cold Nose...
...Guthrie Jr. grew up in Choteau, Mont., where his father was the first high-school principal in the county. The dazzling air and blue immensity of the Rockies, the profound distances of" the Great Plain: are memorably present in his novel...