Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their crusade was sincere and dignified, their membership select. Into it came men like Lessing Rosenwald (son of Sears, Roebuck's famed president, Julius), intimate with Wood and associated with him at Sears; wealthy, influential, socially prominent Edward Ryerson Jr. (steel); wealthy, bluff Sterling Morton (salt). Eager to speak for its cause was such an impeccably American woman as Kathleen Norris, eminently successful writer of he-she stories for women's magazines, a sincere and emotional pacifist who hates war. For the most part, members confined themselves chiefly to writing to the President, until last January when...
...penguins, alligators, crabs. There were monstrous fish, fierce and implacable; sullen, unfriendly fish; fish that clung like parasites to other fish, twisting their sinuous tails in the green water, staring at the shadowy faces beyond the glass. The city gave them 300,000 gallons of water a day-clean salt water from the sea, harbor water, fresh water from the upstate mountain streams...
...months ago the President remarked that some Government agencies would have to leave overcrowded Washington. First to go was the Department of Interior's tiny Grazing Division, which took 40 employes to Salt Lake City. On Oct. 1 the U.S. Forest Service will move its Regional office to Philadelphia...
Andrew Fo Ing, Honolulu, T. H.; Fred L. Jaquith, Brighton, Mass.; Joseph J. Koss, Chicago, Ill.; James J. Murphy, Dublin, Calif.; Robert W. Painter, Salt Lake City, Ut.; Jesse L. Perry Jr., Nashville, Tenn.; Robert C. Rice, Mount Airy, Md., John L. Robins, Canton, N. Y.; Edward M. Rollins, Bristol, Tenn.; Albert E. Selenkow, Baltimore, Md.; Donald A. Starr, Butler, Pa.; Maurice A. Tenenbaum, Louisville, Ky.; Donald P. Watkins, Detroit, Mich.; and William G. Wright, Winnetka...
Although this was only the second case of plague in the U.S. this year, the U.S. Public Health Service was so alarmed that Surgeon General Thomas Parran called a meeting of anti-plague workers in Salt Lake City last week...