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...wartime years had left their mark. Weeds grew around once immaculate service stations, in many a gravel drive and rural schoolyard. Vermont's neglected pastures were overrun with purple bergamot, and Louisiana's bayous with orchidlike water hyacinth. Fireweed grew on steep acres of newly logged land in the Western foothills. But in its broad sweep, in color and loom of hill, the land was unchanged...
...drop, steep as it had been, had still not been as hard as expected. The industry, which had employed 1,250,000 just before the fighting stopped, will probably be down to 250,000 by the first of next month. And at that point planemakers hoped the layoffs would stop. Looking at their backlogs, they had reason to think...
...steep Caraballo Mountains of northern Luzon, a battalion of the 127th Infantry Regiment last week came upon a vast road block-a chasm blasted by retreating Japs...
...taxed Argentine pampas. Stopping over in New Orleans, Patiño jammed himself into a ten-room suite in the Roosevelt Hotel. In a grey suit, wearing a grey fedora and grey gloves, he visited the French Quarter. Although rumored to be ill, he strode boldly up the steep gangplank to the S.S. Rio Jachal. Asked a reporter: "How does it feel to be so rich...
...carry the oversize freight trains that Jeffers knew were on the way. Though one of the U.P.'s fondest boasts is that its roadbed is better laid and better kept than any other road's in the U.S., it rebuilt hundreds of miles of roadbed. For the steep grades over the Great Divide it developed the world's biggest locomotive (4-8-8-4), the 132-ft. "Big Boy," and bought 25 of them. The smartest trick of all was to install centralized traffic control on nearly 400 miles of U.P.'s single track, which gave...