Word: poplar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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EVELYN B. THOMAS Poplar Bluff...
...March in 1934-35. A highhanded but benevolent despot, he has also given his spare, dry, upland Chinghai province (pop. 1,500,000) some of China's best roads, extensive irrigation works and a spectacular reforestation program. Over 13 years he supervised the planting of millions of willow, poplar and acacia seedlings to shade the roads, check riverbank erosion, supply fuel. "Even when I was a little boy," he once explained, "I liked to plant trees. In Chinghai, trees mean greenery and water, life and abundance. I sought to persuade my kin and friends to plant trees...
Stargel, Bob Norman of 1014 Poplar Street, Cincinnati; Walnut Hills High, Cincinnati. Vensas, Victor Vance of 1322 East 115 Street, Cleveland; East High, Cleveland. Vickery, Thomas Glenn of 528 West Stevenson Street, Gibsonburg; Gibsonburg High. Weiss, Sanford Ronald of 12712 Iowa Avenue, Cleveland; Glenville High, Cleveland. Williamson, Billy James of Route 2, Hillsboro; Jackson Local School, Belfast...
Miss de la Roche lives on a quiet Toronto street in a red brick house shaded by poplar trees. There at 9 o'clock every working morning, with a writing pad on her knees, she scribbles out her story. By noon, as much as 1,000 words are written and ready to be transcribed by a secretary. Then Mazo, accompanied by her poodle, Chrysanthemum, goes for a long-striding walk before lunch...
...Have It. In Wetumpka, Ala., the local Ford agency continued under the direction of Nash Karr. In Poplar Bluff, Mo., Joe and Henry Peace were arrested for disturbing...