Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...population (200) were killed. Every house was ruined. Of 38 horses, three were saved. Lenino's 70 cows were evacuated to the Urals; there are only 15 now. The collective barn was the first building to be restored. Next to the barn was a steaming manure pile and a thickly thatched vegetable cellar with Lenino's treasure-40 tons of seed potatoes. But Lenino would see little of the profits. While I was in Moscow, the Soviet state was buying potatoes at $5.84 a ton and selling them at $220 in ration stores, at $1,240 in "commercial...
...economy was tied almost completely to fish and gold-a salmon industry owned in Seattle and a gold industry owned in the East. Alaska had been administered chiefly from dusty Washington pigeonholes by bureaucrats who had never seen a skate of halibut gear or a dredge's tailing pile...
...Changchun itself-the modern, wheel-shaped city of green trees and creamy buildings which the Japs built as a capital for puppet Manchukuo-the sturdy Manchu citizenry were doing their best to remain calm. During the months of cowboy-&-Indian type warfare around Changchun, civilians could (and many did) pile on to trains heading south toward Peiping. But, with the rails cut, civilians were stuck...
After dinner, Rank buries himself in a pile of papers and a box of chocolates until 2 a.m. Nell keeps him company; she sits beside him and knits. "Hollywood has 30 years on us," he explains. "We must do three days' work in one to catch...
...genuine character portrayal. To cap off this two-hour-plus marathon there is perhaps the bloodiest climax in a long, long time-heroine and hero shoot each other full of holes, only to suddenly find that they are madly in love. Bathed in Technicolor gore, they crawl across a pile of rocks to die in each others arms...