Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direction, appreciated by Italians: his efforts to get the terms of the Italian peace treaty relaxed. An indefatigable salesman for the U.S., Dunn is always on hand to dedicate a new bridge built by ECA funds, to present a shipload of toys from the American Legion, or a snow plow from the citizens of Jersey City to an Alpine village...
...cool, a call came in from the nearby 1st Marine Division. The Reds were directing mortar fire on the leathernecks from bunkers protected by 15 feet of earth and logs-too thick for the marines' artillery to penetrate. The Los Angeles had the answer: armor-piercing shells that plow through the bunkers, explode inside. From the loudspeaker above Lieut. Marksheffel's head came the metallic voice of the Marine spotter ashore: "Come left 200 yards . . ." Three more rounds. Again the metallic voice: "Well done. Direct hit on mortar position. End of mission...
...times that of Chicago. In the provinces, landlords continued to take 70% of the crops for themselves, getting interest of 100% to 200% on loans to tenants who were already so deeply in debt that their grandsons would not own enough land to live on or a carabao to plow...
...University last year provided the Business School lot, few took this offer seriously, especially when a long, wet walk and an hour of jockeying on ice were in prospect. Four hundred car-owners applied for space, and tickets were destined to become extinct. But one night when the plow was unable to squeeze through a congested street, the police investigated and found only 40 cars in the lot. The remaining autos were clustered about the Houses and getting away with...
...farmers' suggestions were filtering back to Washington. If the returns from Michigan were any indication, the department seemed to be in for its roughest going since that summer day in 1933, when President Franklin Roosevelt presented a medal to a Georgia farmer as the first man to plow his cotton under...