Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zuider Zee. Loud cheers from the throngs on the dikes. Down came the next led by I-PELL (Pellegrini). Then the first red group-I-DINI (Captain Baldini at the controls). Inexplicably the leading red plane smacked the water like a cannonball, somersaulted once, settled into the mud. Captain Baldini and three crewmen were fished out alive, but Sergeant Quintavalle was dead...
Tommies who ploughed through Flanders' mud to Ypres, doughboys who marched through the black night into the Argonne. soldiers who were herded aboard transports and troop trains, recruits who dug straddle ditches and loaded ammunition until their backs were fairly broken, had one song which helped more than any other to see them through the War. In leaky barracks, smoky cafes and on endless marches ''There's a Long. Long Trail'' was sung rowdily, nostalgically. Last week, in Spokane, Wash., after five months of sleeping sickness, Death took Stoddard King, the man who wrote...
...grown-rich grew as bored with Florida swamps as he had with undecorated trolley cars. So he bought up a million and a half acres of Florida, mud and all. Before he got through he had acquired 14 hotels, built roads, railroads, towns, schools, banks, telephone systems, and opened a steamship line to Havana...
...treated with insecticide, a metal sheet or other barrier placed be tween ground and wood. This bars out insects in the ground, kills those already in the wood by keeping them away from ground moisture. Foundation timbers, basement walls and flooring should be kept dry. Hating light, termites build mud-covered runways up concrete foundation walls. Lately some builders, believing the insects will not cross them, have used glass bricks to top their walls...
...Mediterranean. North Africa looked much like southern France. Then the Sahara began. Crossing the Sahara nowadays is a comparatively safe matter. The French run passenger buses over a fairly well-defined trail. But the two principal way-stations are not marked on any map. Bordj Estienne, an elaborate mud fort near the oasis of Reggan, boasts (and not idly) an American bar, French table d"hÓte, illustrated French and English magazines less than ten days old, bedrooms with electric light. Bidon 5 is a gasoline pump, "a white-enamelled pillar identical with those you see along any road...