Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME which records all significant things will be interested to know that Thomas R. Amlie of Elkhorn, Wis., candidate for the U. S. Senate on the Progressive ticket, is using sound films in connection with his speaking campaign. In one of the pictures, The River, he demonstrates what the cutting over of forest lands has meant to the Mississippi Valley in the way of worn-out land, eroded top soil and ever recurrent floods. In the other film, The Plow that Broke the Plains, the tragic story of the Dust Bowl is developed; Amlie outlines what has been and still...
When one-fifth of the people of the U. S. want to know where there's a covey of quail, or a good trout hole, who's had a baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F. D. carrier. He or she (there are 323 shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that...
...direction of the Ladrone Islands, and Pilot Woods promptly ducked into a cloud. When he reached the end of it, five Japanese planes were on his tail, power diving at the Douglas to force it down. "Japanese planes chasing us," radioed Pilot Woods, then three minutes later: "Forced land river: all safe...
Pilot Woods calculated his landing perfectly. The only thing he did not calculate correctly was the intention of the Japanese. The Japanese dived again & again, spraying the downed plane with machine-gun bullets. The transport's crew and passengers went overboard into the river and the Japanese planes fired on them in the water, continuing the work of extermination. Pilot Woods was carried away by a swift current and reached shore in safety. Radio Operator Joe Loh and a passenger, Chinese Civil Servant C. N. Lou, with a bullet in his neck, also escaped. Two days later, while...
Eons before Franklin Roosevelt strewed Canada's broad Laurentian slope with fistfuls of international amity (see p. 9), Ice Age glaciers had been over the place, scupping out the wide St. Lawrence river bed and garnishing it, like a great dish of trifle, with thousands of inviting islands. Since then many men have visited the Thousand Islands-legendary tribes of gravel-knoll dwellers, red-paint people; then Indians and white men-but until one day last week no summer sightseer could drive through them in his automobile...