Word: plateaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week thousands of dead cattle lay in tumbled rows on the arctic barrens of the great plains; thousands of dead sheep were buried on the plateaus and in the snow-choked valleys of the Rocky Mountain states. Whole herds and flocks of weak and starving animals had been without food for weeks...
Last week, Detroit Symphony-goers and a national ABC radio audience got their first chance to hear what all the money was spent for. The composer himself had explained his work: "If it is broad and sweeping, as the judges say it is, it comes from viewing the high plateaus of the Wasatch Range while tending sheep. . . . One passage sort of expresses the old-timers who spit tobacco into brass spittoons. . . ." But Trilogy had little picture painting about it: it was a well-knit if not wonderful symphony, with occasional ear-splitting eruptions of brass. Commented Detroit Critic Harvey Taylor...
Confidently, Mr. Truman saw meat ahead. Grass-fed cattle (chased from high plateaus by cold weather) would soon begin to appear in the markets. Hog feeders, viewing a record corn crop (673,000,000 bushels in Iowa), saw the opportunity to make a profit from feeding to heavier weights, so hogs might be late. But they would be along. "The dire predictions of a meat famine are without basis," said the President: "An increase in prices or the abandonment of price control on meat now would . . . add to rather than solve our difficulties...
Perhaps the world's most spectacularly homeless group of able young men is General Wladyslaw Anders' 160,000-strong II Polish Corps. They were looking to the New World. Argentina would take 20,000 as farmers and technicians. Site of the proposed settlement: the semi-arid plateaus of Patagonia with their thousands of acres of good sheep land...
Then he and Anderson headed east. Behind them the trucks continued to roll towards the railroads. In Clint Anderson's notebook were written UNRRA's hopes-delivery in the next three weeks of 110,000,000 bushels of wheat from the plateaus and prairies of Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Washington, Oregon. At last, the wheat was rolling...