Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home to Gene Atkins meant a wretched rural slum. His father was a sharecropper in the Hogback Mountain region, where tenant farms are rich only in ragged children, moonshine stills and Redbone hounds. The hero and his hill bride had little chance of escaping poverty. Broke, Gene Atkins was resigned to spend his $300 mustering-out pay for a stock-mule, harness, turning plow, singlefoot, geewhiz, section harrow, planter and wagon-and then sharecropping cotton on another man's land...
Nestled in the mountains six miles from Podmokly was a vast underground factory, the Weser Works. In the first three months of liberation the Weser Works were quiet, deserted. Now they hummed with hidden activity. Czech and Russian security police kept close watch on the difficult mountain approaches...
...important new fact in the China puzzle is that Chinese policy, bursting out of its beleaguered mountain fortresses, has physically arrived at the Great Wall. Beyond lies Manchuria - steel mills, huge reserves of iron ore, coal and magnesite, pulpwood, rich farmland - all the prizes for which the statesmen and economists have yearned. Of immediate importance, destitution or prosperity in Shanghai depends upon getting coal from the North...
...Mountains. The most colorful diplomat on the current U.S. scene was born 51 years ago, in the Montana mountain country. His future was shaped at birth: Spruille's father was William Braden, an engineer and promoter who followed the mining business from Montana to Chile, got rich in the process, and in his day was famous throughout the southern continent...
Close to the peak of Old Screamer Mountain, looking out over the foothills of Georgia's Blue Ridge, sits Laurel Falls, a swank camp-school for girls. There for more than 20 years magnetic, pompadoured Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith has taught a special kind of school. Some 60 well-to-do kids (including, last year, Golfer Robert Tyre Jones's daughters Clara and Ellen) are given, among other things, the facts of life according to the latest precepts of progressive education...