Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Iowa, anchored in Sagami Bay, TIME Correspondent John Walker radioed: "Off our port beam we saw the vast bulk of the holy mountain, Fuji, almost concealed in a wreath of clouds which could have been a mourning robe of traditional Japanese white - the color of death." The advance guard of airborne invaders landed at Atsugi; their transports disgorged aviation engineers, jeeps, gasoline, rations, radios, to prepare for the grand entry of the 11th Airborne Division and of MacArthur himself. Between Atsugi and the fleet was the Emperor's seaside palace at Hayama, destined to be MacArthur...
Echoes from the earth are affected by the angle at which the radar beam strikes its irregularities, and by "shadows" cast by raised objects. Thus mountain tops and ridges are easily distinguishable from the surrounding terrain...
When Robert H. Hinckley, onetime $50,000-a-year executive at Sperry Corp., moved in as boss of the troublesome Office of Contract Settlement, he faced a mountain: the settlement of billions in canceled war contracts. This week, OCS Boss Hinckley reported he was well on his way to bulldozing it into a molehill...
...Colorado's strike-bloodied coalfields in 1927 came trim, zealous Josephine Roche, Vassar-trained daughter of reactionary Financier John J. Roche, and heir to his minority holdings in the $10,000,000 Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. Behind her lay 17 years of hard social work. Ahead lay her big chance to "fight for tremendous things," i.e., to put her long-pent labor-relations theories to a practical test. Last week the test was close...
Miss Roche started out bravely. She bought control of Rocky Mountain Fuel, then rammed through the first mine union contract in Colorado history. R.M.F., which has lost $648,570 to date, began to perk up-principally on business from unions and liberal Democrats...