Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aircraft's Chicago plant, the "wise guys" among the 20,000 employes were scurrying for new jobs. Some had already left: a layout artist switched to an aviation magazine; a riveter went to Inland Steel. To stop the flight, Douglas let word get out that it has a mountain of postwar orders locked up in the safe. But the exodus went...
Among the poems read were "Departmental," "The Mountain," "Mending Wall," "Buying a Farm," "The Road Not Taken," and "Line Gang...
...place the trail climbed 5,400 feet in less than six miles. Natives said Merrill's pack train would never make it. When some weary mules stalled, muleskinners shouldered loads, shoved the weary animals up the mountain...
...States, the PH experts had begun and ended the battle of Saipan. In Pearl Harbor they wrote with beautiful enthusiasm of American troops swamping the Japs, sweeping up Saipan's beach, blasting blithely through its defenses, sprinting to the island's biggest airport, largest town, highest mountain. They wrote with such smug confidence of victory that no reader and no editor could doubt that American troops here were engaged in a picnic of no consequence. So long as press communications remain as they are in the Pacific the PH copy will always get there first-and will always...
...Mikados and 5,400 h.p. diesels are dragging ever-increasing loads of war materials westward over the mountain passes while the services call for more & more. Passenger traffic has rocketed 577% over 1939. And labor is so scarce that women and young girls are handling mail and express on the passenger trains...