Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a flowering cherry tree, the in scrutable Japs were served Chinese food by inscrutable Chinese waiters. Then they were summoned to headquarters of Lieut. General Hsiao Yu-shu, deputy of Chinese Chief of Staff General Ho Ying-chin...
...Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had a bruised hand and ankle and a chipped vertebra after his plane crash-landed into a tree near Oldenburg, Germany...
General Henry H. Arnold is younger (59) but wartime strain has aged him perceptibly. Last week forthright "Hap" Arnold said wearily at a press conference (perhaps his last) that he would retire soon. "I intend to go out and sit under an oak tree and I'll shoot down the first fellow that flies over in an airplane," said the man who built up an air force of 64,591 planes and 2,282,259 airmen...
...before long. Rubber producers believe they will find upwards of 200,000 tons of crude rubber ready for shipment when they return to their plantations. One reason: it would have been physically impossible for the Japs to trudge through the thousands of square miles of jungles hacking every tree to destruction...
...planned that way, insisted David Cityans) was a showing of 28 oils by 41-year-old Dale Nichols, art editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and a nationally known painter of Christmas-cardish Midwestern landscapes and Greyhound bus ads. Nichols' specialties are heart-warming red barns, picturesque blue snowhills, tree branches reaching to cobalt skies...