Word: valley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the temperature hovering between freezing and 28 degrees, skiing conditions this week have been as favorable as at any time during the winter. Cannon Mountain, Franconia Notch, Pinkham Notch, and Waterville Valley, all in New Hampshire, offer the best skiing for this weekend...
Last summer thousands of Chinese died from starvation in the flooded Yellow River valley. In besieged Madrid the number of persons reported dying from starvation every week has recently risen to 2,000. Faced by these grim facts, a subcommittee of the League of Nations' Technical Commission on Nutrition, headed by Britain's famed Sir Edward Mellanby, met in August to find out exactly how much a man must eat in order to stay alive. Last week the Lancet printed the nutritionists' report. The report suggested a basic minimum diet for war-torn countries which would tickle...
...management; jovial Mr. Ruml used to be dean of the social sciences at the University of Chicago; swank Mr. Harriman, long interested in the New Deal, chairmans the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council. Last week he flew to Des Moines from his Union Pacific's Sun Valley playground, on Harry Hopkins' advice did not bother to bring his dinner jacket. The one Speaker Hopkins wore was rented at the last minute...
...Cloudy Fair 23 3 corn over 20 base Stowe, (Mt. Mansfield) Vt. Cloudy Good 34 Ranging to 70 Sunapee Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 8 Breakable cr. Tamworth Region, N.H. Fair Poor 25 Wet Warren, N.H. Cloudy Fair 24 Breakable cr. Waterville, Me. Fair Fair 12 Corn snow Waterville Valley, N.H. Cloudy Fair 38 to 60 light cr. Whitefield, N.H. Cloudy Poor 10 Wet Wolfeboro, N.H. Fair Good 14 Soft Woodstock, Vt. Cloudy Poor 15 Laurentian Mts. Can. Cloudy Good 58 Powder Quebec (Lac Beauport) Can. Cloudy Good 72 Powder
...journey's end, in the fertile Willamette Valley, battered mentally and physically, the survivors are tough-skinned men and women whose memories hold at least as much to forget as to remember...