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...have occasional sandstorms here in Owens Valley, but the climate is very good for our health. We are enjoying our new home to the utmost, and under the snow-covered High Sierra mountains our life is just wonderful...
...Francisco. But they learned last week that, in a nation's hour of peril, having been born a citizen is not enough. So they began to pack their keepsakes, lift their slant-eyed children on their arms, and start on the long migration east across the Sierra Nevadas, to dreary inland country far from the blue sea. They were some of the West Coast's 70,000-odd Nisei. Their honorable ancestors were Japanese...
...citizens, even if their ancestors were Japanese, could not be herded into concentration camps. One answer was an Army "reception center" going up in Owens Valley, a desolate tract of land on the east side of the Sierra Nevadas, in Southern California. The Owens Valley settlement may eventually hold some 50,000 Japs. General DeWitt has plans for another center on the Colorado River near Blythe. But that was a dreary prospect for the Nisei outcasts, who remembered their rich lands and the smell...
...they were not looking for rarities, about 10% of their 550 species proved to be new. They were stung by urchins, morays, anemones, stingrays and stinging worms. Their hands, cut by barnacles, became first a welter of sores and then horny-callused. They caught and ate tuna, skipjack and sierra, tried unsuccessfully to eat a turtle; they drank beer and whiskey; they bathed by jumping over the side; they had a wonderful time...
Magnesium is everywhere. It is a vital ingredient of chlorophyll, and without it leaves would not be green. Every cubic mile of sea water contains 5,700,000 tons of it. Whole mountains of its ores lie among the Austrian Alps, the southern Appalachians, the Sierra Nevada. The far Western States are strewn with it; salt lakes are saturated with it. But until aviation came along, nobody wanted...