Word: trails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kazakhstan is the terminus of an ancient (and improved) silk and spice trail which, in the authors' opinion, has been even more important to China than the Burma Road. Kazakhstan is first in the Soviet Union in copper mining, second in tin and gold, third in coal and petroleum. In the south, kok-sagyz, a rubber-yielding dandelion, is Russia's No. 2 source for rubber...
...story long circulated in Washington and New York: that a Coast Guardsman had surprised the four saboteurs who landed on Long Island's Amagansett Beach; that, after they tried to bribe him into silence, he gave the alarm which put the FBI on the saboteurs' trail. The Coast Guardsman, young, dimpled Coxswain Jack Culley, (see cut) told his story at the trial...
Died. William Henry Jackson, 99, pioneer photographer of the West; of complications following a fall; in Manhattan. At 22, a Civil War veteran who had fought with the Army of the Potomac, he escorted migrant Mormons over the Oregon Trail, drove a mule train over the Rockies, rode herd on 300 mustangs bound from Sacramento to Omaha. He photographed the building of the Union Pacific, the boom days of Cripple Creek and Leadville, made camera records of the Indians and frontiersmen of the Wyoming Territory, gave stay-at-home Easterners their first graphic pictures of the West...
...tonsillectomy, he suddenly got red hot and finished the season with a batting average of .414-second highest in all the 41 minor leagues. Snapped up by Cleveland (for $12,500) to replace Hal Trosky this year, Fleming has not cooled off. Last week he was batting .343 to trail only two American Leaguers: Yankee Joe Gordon and Red Sox Bobby Doerr...
...rocket bombs, which are said to be as destructive as a large-caliber shell, are slung from the underside of the wings, aimed by pointing planes directly at their targets. Self-propelled, the rockets trail a stream of sparks like the tail of a comet. In London some experts predicted that rocket bombs may soon make dive-bombing obsolete. Reasons: 1) the new weapon's high potential accuracy, which enables planes to bomb with greater success from greater heights; 2) its greater penetrating power-the push of the rocket stream is added to the momentum given to the bomb...