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Word: saltingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State George Marshall hastened back to Washington from the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City. His decision was that the U.S. must back the Truman Doctrine. A plan of operations was put into immediate effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Plan of Operations | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...still a Holy City, the Zion of the faithful, but as such it is as peculiarly American as Mormonism itself; to most U.S. citizens Salt Lake City is a "tourist attraction." When Mormons observe their Utah Centennial next week with parades, dances, music, speeches and religious services, thousands of non-Mormons will crowd the bunting-hung streets. They will stare at the multi-towered Mormon Temple, marvel at the acoustical wonders of that famed and enormous Quonset hut, the Mormon Tabernacle, where the Mormon choir thunders out hymns. But what will most awe them will be the spectacular manifestations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Plowshares & Perfume. As commander of temporal as well as spiritual affairs, kindly old President George Smith presides over an enormous going concern. The church, as owner of the big and prosperous Z.C.M.I. (Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution), Salt Lake City's first department store, deals in everything from plowshares to perfume. It owns Salt Lake City's top-rung Hotel Utah and its next-best Temple Square Hotel. It owns one of the city's daily newspapers, the Deseret News, and its biggest transmitter, radio station KSL. The church's Utah Idaho-Sugar Co. operates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...last they moved down Emigration Canyon to the Great Salt Lake, to a sagebrush Zion on the River Jordan flowing into the Dead Sea. The day after the first group arrived they diverted a creek for irrigation, and plowed. Under Young's relentless driving a city was laid out, farms established, dams raised, smithies, tanneries, crude flour mills set up. Young knew what the Mormons needed for survival: isolation and a chance to sink their roots. When the Mormons heard the news of the gold strike at Sutter's Mill, he cried: "Gold is for paving streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Mormon terminology for any non-Mormon; Salt Lake City is probably the one city in the world where a Jew is a Gentile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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