Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rocky Mountain spotted fever is now in full seasonal upswing. But the U.S. Public Health Service reassuringly pointed out that, newspaper reports notwithstanding, there is no epidemic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, less spotted fever (112 cases) so far this year than so far last year (126 cases...
Midway between the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic the Germans seemed firmer. Mines, demolitions, difficult country, stubborn rear guards impeded pursuit of the long, weary German columns winding up the rutted mountain roads. But General Sir Oliver Leese's Eighth Army slogged steadily at their heels, captured Avezzano, virtually cleared the lateral highway from Rome to the Adriatic...
...surface excited reports and portable relics. In 1896 the eminent marine engineer, Vittorio Malfatti, worked out a feasible plan for raising the sunk galleys. But it remained for Benito Mussolini to carry out the plan. By his order a Roman drainage tunnel, which led out under a mountain, was reopened. Four huge electric pumps were installed. With his own hand II Duce started the pumps (1928). A little less than three years later the water-logged galleys were raised. In 1940 Mussolini presented the venerable hulls, mounted on concrete, as a pious gift to Rome on her 2,695th birthday...
...People's Chance. Thus did a nation of 3,000,000 people, living in a jungle-and-mountain land as big as California, clean their house. A cynical Ecuadorian once told Author Ludwig Bemelmans: "We have a revolution here every Thursday afternoon at half-past two and our Government is run like a nightclub." But last week's uprising, which gave the country its 14th President in 15 years, was more than a nightclub brawl. A popular movement with democratic aspirations had overthrown an unpopular government with dictatorial inclinations. Velasco Ibarra still had to prove that he would...
...Province. But his big strike came last month, after he made a deal with the Carter Oil Co., a Jersey Standard subsidiary, to drill a 15,000-acre tract in Montana, near Roundup (pop. 2,645). Every Rocky Mountain geologist had thumbed it down. But Hawley struck oil on the west side of the tract. Hawley and the Carter Co. promptly divided their holdings in the area, Carter taking the western half and selling the eastern half of the area to Hawley. Smartly he moved his rig to the eastern side. There he brought in a 5,000-bbl. well...