Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the face of Congressional opposition, Franklin Roosevelt once again went to the rescue of Wyoming's mountain-hemmed Jackson Hole. Two years ago by executive order, he made Jackson Hole a national monument after Congress had refused to make it a national park. Now he firmly vetoed a bill to abolish it as a monument...
Jack Brunner has planned another "spotlight affair." This time it's a trip to the mountain North Conway, New Hampshire, for a ski weekend. This trip has already shown the sings of Jack's genius for the novel--at least on paper--what with a troupe of well stocked St. Bernards, steam-heated boots...
MacArthur announced that the 11th Airborne Division was in action on Leyte; in its first combat, the outfit captured a strategic mountain pass, made a junction with the 7th Division and helped mop up the enemy 26th. There was still bitter fighting to be done, and even after the island was declared secure, there would be hundreds of Japs to be dug out. But the broad strategic objective had been...
...happened at last week's major league baseball meeting in Manhattan. The manpower squeeze, tightened further by new selective service needs in the 26-37 year-old group, precluded any important player deals. On the one big issue, appointment of a successor to the late High Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the club owners did nothing more alarming than to name a ways & means committee...
...Patission Street. The struggle went on all week. British troops and the British-trained Mountain Brigade methodically cleaned up street after street only to have ELAS riflemen, clad in civilian clothes, infiltrate behind them. At week's end the British-held area was still only an island in a hostile...