Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany when the symptoms showed, the disease was already too far advanced to stop, except by involving a whole world in its course for five years. Now, before our dead are in their final resting places, the beer hall in Munich has moved to Stone Mountain in Georgia...
...through passengers were marooned. Muskegon, Mich, felt the strike too: one 1911 locomotive and two wooden cars were tied up. It was the same at Fargo, N.D. (where the Great Northern's crack Empire Builder ground to a stop) and at high little towns on the mountain divisions and in the yards at Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle...
Male Revolution. Last week TIME Correspondent Bill Gray hopped over from Korea to see how things were going on Cheju. Its white mountain and green valleys were as beautiful as reported, he cabled, and three grassy, fenced-off holes in the ground-whence Ko, Yang and Pu supposedly had come-were still being tended and revered in a small park (not far from a more recent Jap-built air-raid shelter). In recent centuries a permanent male population had been established on the island, but women still outnumbered the men. The old native description of the island-"Too much wind...
Sing Out, Sweet Land! (Decca, 10 sides). A merry survey of 300 years of U.S. music from the late Broadway musical. Best of the 17 songs are Big Rock Candy Mountain, sung by Burl Ives, Casey Jones by Bibi Osterwald, and such treasures as Little Mohee and Frankie and Johnny. Performance: good...
Said to be in an ideal mountain atmosphere, the Observatory, established in 1940, worked during the war on research activity vital to naval radio communications throughout the world, though this work has until now been of a highly confidential character. With an annual budget estimated at $50,000, the station will now "assume a greatly increased role in solar research and other phases of astronomy which can be done best at high altitudes...