Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lean Arthur Ernest Morgan is a top-flight civil engineer, an expert on flood control, a famed progressive educator, and a man of stern and often inflexible ideas. Plain, stringy Harcourt A. Morgan is a farmer and entomologist who came to TVA from the Presidency of the University of Tennessee, and knows more about Tennessee Valley farmers than anyone in the Authority. David Eli Lilienthal is a young lawyer, a former associate of Donald Richberg, with a background of fighting Wisconsin utility companies as a member of the La Follettes' Public Service Commission. The Great TVA Schism, boiled down...
...Southern California, recording eleven inches in five days. As unprepared for such an event as Los Angeles' citizens, Los Angeles' terrain failed to absorb the water. From the San Bernardino hills behind the city, the mountains behind the hills, it sluiced down across the narrow coastal plain on which the city and its scattered suburbs sprawl over 482 square miles. Three days of storm filled the shallow arroyos which are dry most of the year; four sent the water pouring over streets and into houses, crashed bridges, washed out hillsides. The rain continued. When it finally stopped after...
...London," someone cautioned, and the early customers waited expectantly. "Well, we've done it," giggled a feminine voice from the London end. "They've done it!" shouted the bartender. No explanation was needed for the pub's regular customers. "They" meant the owner of the Plow, plain-featured, 35-year-old Ishbel Allen MacDonald, daughter of the late longtime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and her fiancé of two weeks, sandy-haired, 35-year-old Norman Ridgley, village handy man. The telephone call meant they had been quietly married...
...which Manker was driving was a coupe. It struck the repair truck on the side. The crash threw William M. McDonald, of Jamica Plain, repairman who was working on the tower, into a pot of hot lead. He received severe burns...
...Please make it plain that this is not only an Oriental show. It is something broader than that - a Pacific Basin show...