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Wenatchee lies miles east of Seattle, past the snow-capped Cascade Mountains, whose passes are sheer rock faces and whose steep fir forests are gashed with crimson where scrub maple grows in the ravines. In these mountain passes the fall rains break and the woods are always wet. Wenatchee, 20 miles away, is a desert, valley, whose volcanic-ash topsoil was once barren of anything but scrub pine...
Last week, as in every October, Wenatchee's streets were crowded with roving apple pickers. The "apple sheds"-where machines wash, scrub, dry and sort the fruit-ran full blast. Long lines of yellow refrigerator cars waited along the blue Columbia River; at night the switch engines, making up fruit trains, hammered their echoes off the high barren ridge across the river...
Senator Alben Barldey of Kentucky clutched convulsively at his pride and howled in pain when he learned that Montana's Burton K. Wheeler had contended that Kentucky has a desert training center. "A desert in country like Kentucky!" Barkley cried. "Why, there is more sand and scrub in the City Park in Butte . . . than there is in the whole of the old Kentucky home." He found a transcript of the Montanan's remarks, fell to studying, presently announced that Wheeler must have had Fort Knox's cookery school in mind and meant to say "dessert...
...Army dentist joined the unit. He was no help on most wounds and did not know how to scrub up. "He washed his hands just like any dentist does be fore he sticks his thumb in your mouth." But when Seagrave got a puzzling jaw case, the dentist stepped forward. "I let him go to it with a sigh of relief. By George, that fellow certainly knew his job! By the time he had finished I had something I could really drape that face over." Captain Grindlay from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic appeared. At first he seemed disgruntled...
Crossville simmers quietly in the scrub oak of the Cumberland Plateau, nine bumpy miles from the neat little county seat whose name it shares. In a rough rectangle, 2,400 ft. by 1,100 ft., stretches the barbed-wire stockade, two 12-ft. fences of 21 strands...