Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Purdy's first Victory, printed mainly to induce Congress to appropriate enough money to finance it, was a handsome 80-page job printed on heavy slick paper. After excellent air views of New York City and Boulder Dam, a fine shot of a tree-shaded, U.S. residential street and a picture of an Indiana dirt road complete with rugged farmer, there were full-page color photos of Franklin Roosevelt (with a story about him) and Henry Wallace (with an article by him). Other features: a three-page color spread of Marines training for combat; a double-truck photo...
Root of the Family Tree. In Coati-cook, Quebec, death came to 103-year-old Hubert Leclerc, who left 375 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren...
...corpulent Office Secretary Edward Prichard.) At 7 o'clock the White House car takes Jimmy Byrnes home for dinner; usually he takes a brown Manila paper envelope full of reports with him. Almost his only relaxation is walking his wire-haired fox terrier, Whiskers, along Washington's tree-lined streets at night...
...moving was the man likeliest to be killed. Those who were motionless in the New Guinea jungle were Japanese. Those who moved were Americans and Australians. The Japanese had cut down coconut palms, roofed their pillboxes with tree trunks, piled the roofs high with sand-filled rice bags. Machine-gun slits and gun bays gave out from cleverly constructed trenches radiating from the pillboxes...
...home. By midmorning it grew light and she blew out the lamp. It grew warmer, too, and she could no longer see her breath as she stitched quickly, trying to keep up with the new high norms. In past years there had been a New Year's fir tree and presents for the children...