Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peacefully Chatting. But on Easter Sunday-a brooding day in which fog and bituminous smoke pressed down on Clover Fork, Yokum, Catron's Creek and all the hills and hollers-history caught up with Ambrose Metcalfe. He drove into the shabby settlement of Lejunior with his wife and baby, stopped and climbed out, belligerently intent on investigating a parked automobile in which he had seen a bootlegger named Ford Sizemore and a café operator, Art Jackson...
...noon, the pace of the looting had slowed. Most people went stolidly about their business. Vegetable hawkers shouted their wares. In the distance, occasional pistol shots sounded. At the river bank, two black columns of smoke from burning docks rose into the sunny, hazy...
...exultant Communist radio described the scene of the crossing: "The river rang with silvery notes of bugles and martial music . . . Boats by the thousands shuttled between the northern and southern banks . . . As 1,000 guns belched fire and smoke, the Yangtze waters were lit up in a lurid glare...
...impatient of injustice, he said. Another virtue: "The Americans have something which is missing in England today-beautiful manners." Sir Osbert even had a gaudy tribute for New York, "the most beautiful and inspiring of modern creations, the sole heir to Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice." In Pittsburgh, whose smoke she spoofs in her show, Inside U.S.A., Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) accepted a nosegay of white roses from Mayor David L. Lawrence, accompanied him to a mountain top for a clear view of the city. ("Fortunately," reported the Pittsburgh Press, "it was a nice day.") With the best of British manners...
...findings. When McCabe's job (policing the air) was created 18 months ago, the crime of air pollution had been on the increase for seven years-ever since war orders made Los Angeles a small-parts arsenal. With near-dictatorial powers to shut down plants which disobey his smoke-curbing orders, McCabe has persuaded industry to appropriate $10 million for smog control...