Word: river
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canned soup and nylons, left the same day with their holds crammed with bagged raw sugar and cases of pineapple. But when the pineapple-laden freighters hit the U.S. West Coast, their "hot" cargoes found a warm reception from Bridges' longshoremen. At The Dalles, Ore., on the Columbia River, one skipper abandoned efforts to unload his cargo after Bridges' men mauled a pick-up crew of local farmers and cowhands. Trucks were smashed, machinery damaged and several truck drivers beaten up. Other longshoremen began an air-sea patrol to look out for other attempts to land the forbidden...
...French are doing well in both respects. Last year, the Communists controlled virtually the entire country except the major cities. Since then they have lost the key rural areas, including the Red River delta and Mekong River delta, where 90% of IndoChina's rice is grown. In a land that is five-sixths jungle, Ho and his forces can still strike almost anywhere. But while last year the Communists levied $30 million worth of money and rice from farmers taking their crops to town, government forces now guard the roads so well that the Reds' toll is almost...
Mangoes & Chanel No. 5. The little medieval touch has given the new regime a valuable breather. Some of the country's wounds are healing fast. In Sontay, once a thriving town of 6,000 in the Red River delta, only seven people and one church were left when the French took it from the Communists last November. When I visited Sontay last month, it was largely rebuilt, 5,000 of its people had returned, and in its bustling market, cheerful, slim-hipped women were buying everything from mangoes to Chanel...
...York Yankees paid an estimated $40,000 to transport 215 pounds of first baseman across the Harlem River August 22. John Mize paid it all back in Ebbets Field yesterday afternoon with a ninth-inning, bases-loaded pinch hit single that beat the Dodgers...
...after five months and two weeks of dire peril, the two crossed over the river and met together, the one unto the other; and there was a great multitude gathered there when the two reached the nearer bank of the river, which shouted aloud for the honor of the two contestants, that they had prevailed through sore injury and defeat, even through the heat of the middle west and the hostility of the tribes of Boston...