Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down with the Ditch. Franklin Roosevelt first tried to carve a canal across Florida's 172-mile neck in 1935, with $5,400,000 of relief money. By 1936 the money was gone, the canal was still a useless ten-mile ditch rapidly filling with sand and silt. In 1937 and again in 1939 the ditch came up for review-and more money-in Congress, and got the cold shoulder. At that time, one of the most vociferous opponents of the Great Boondoggle was New Hampshire's proud, loud Senator Styles Bridges...
Last week the white man still persuaded and threatened. The Indians watched the snow melt on the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo range, watched the water trickle down into the sun-drenched Rio Grande valley, watched the locoweed purple and the sand lizards take shade in clumps of wild four-o'clock. They and their ancestors had seen spring come to the Pueblos thus for countless generations...
...Foamed-rubber latex, familiar stuffing for auto upholstery, now seals airplanes' bomb doors and cabins, cushions flight-control instruments, earphones and helmets. It weatherstrips tanks against sand and water, protects crews from bumps...
Near the fringes of the Everglades, where Army engineers have ripped pines from the white sand and replaced them with unlovely cantonment buildings, a column of bronzed troops swung crisply from a company street. A band fell in at the head of the column, flashed back the bright Florida sun from its burnished instruments as it thumped the Army Air Corps march. Its song rose and fell against a discordant background: the muffled thud of shotguns, the crisp crack of .30-caliber machine guns, the sulky bark...
Like most small-town rich boys, young Elmer grew up a little apart. His mother and aunt, former schoolteachers, started his education long before he went to school; in a town where most boys preferred swimming off the sand bars, skating on Hogan's Creek or coasting at Dutch Hollow, he was soon known as an intellectual. Oldtimers remember him as a plump youngster (from a heavy appetite for beefsteak and cake), with a large, serious head thrust inquiringly forward, a stiff-legged, determined walk, a penchant for burying his nose in a book. In baseball games...