Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baby. Two years ago Mouat was a wooded mountainside, green with Douglas fir and jack pine. Its population consisted of jut-jawed old Prospector Bill Mouat and his wife. Then the U.S., needing chrome sorely, found it at Mouat. Japs had choked off the chrome supply from the Philippines; the Nazis blocked the Mediterranean route from Turkey, Nazi subs imperiled shipping from South Africa. The Government moved in with old Prospector Bill...
...became Chiang Kai-shek's air adviser. "Why," he had growled, "should I worry my brains out when I can prove my theories somewhere else?" In a few months, the Japs almost wiped out his infant air force, but Chennault did not regret his move or noticeably pine for the U.S. Air Corps...
...chill hours before dawn, hundreds of steam and motor boats crept out over the star-sprinkled swells of the upper Great Lakes. They chugged past dim, pine-spiked shores until the sky greyed into day and the wheelmen could pick out the flag-topped buoys that marked their submerged nets. The craft drifted silently to a stop in the icy, crystal water...
...Stanley, famed virus investigator of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, told of a new Russian antiserum that has given the best results yet in preventing influenza. Soviet scientists have found ways to extract iodine cheaply from the foul waters of oilfields, sugar from watermelons, vitamin C from pine-tree needles for hungry Leningrad. Important contributions have been made to molecular physics, optics, electronics...
...whose steep fir forests are gashed with crimson where scrub maple grows in the ravines. In these mountain passes the fall rains break and the woods are always wet. Wenatchee, 20 miles away, is a desert, valley, whose volcanic-ash topsoil was once barren of anything but scrub pine...