Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lesson in Obstruction. Finally American patience politely gave out. Adjournment was suggested. General Shtykov communicated with "higher headquarters," then informed the U.S. commander in Korea, Lieut. General John R. Hodge, that his orders were to cease negotiations and return to Northern Korea...
...last leg Musk-Ox bogged down. The snowmobiles which had licked the northern wilderness could not take modern highway conditions. On the gravel of the Alaska Highway their engines became clogged with dust, the heat in the vehicles became unbearable. At Grand Prairie, Alberta, with but 250 miles to go to Edmonton, Musk-Ox called for help. A special train was sent up. Eighty days out of Churchill, Manitoba, the weary men of Musk-Ox were glad to load their snowmobiles on the train, pile on themselves for the ride to their goal...
...over the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line roads. The lo-to-yo-car trains, as well as dozens of chartered airliners, all carried the same load: tomato seed plants. Before the short shipping season ends, South Georgia farmers will ship a billion tender young tomato plants for planting in northern fields, along with hundreds of millions of onion, cabbage, broccoli, sweet potato, pepper and lettuce seedlings...
Then the message came; Harry Truman summoned him-buf not a moment too soon. In the excitement someone at the White House typed the announcement that the President would confer that afternoon with "Mr." Charles O'Neill (head of the northern mine operators) and the "Hon." John Lewis. Triumphantly, the Hon. John Lewis acted. As he had once ruined Franklin Roosevelt's show by proclaiming the end of a strike 15 minutes before Roosevelt went on the air to castigate him, he now spoiled Harry Truman's show. Three hours before he was due at the White...
...Real Thing. Across 70 miles of Red River Valley flatlands, past fields of new-seeded wheat, he and Anderson drove to Climax, Minn. (pop. 253). Some 3,000 farmers, wives & children turned out to see them. They watched wheat being loaded into a Northern Pacific train. "This is as near the real thing as I've seen," Butch exulted, and with a mouth full of tacks started hammering signs on the wheat cars: MORE FOOD FOR UNRRA...