Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wavys" (snow geese) settling into range or the whisper of duck wings in the reeds just before the birds take off. Last week, as wintering waterfowl beat their way south, hunting seasons were opening along the ancient flyways: the Atlantic seaboard, the Pacific and mountain states, down the Mississippi Valley and south across the Great Plains. Everywhere the birds stopped, they matched wits with well-equipped adversaries. Guns belched bird shot from cramped duckboats and drafty duckblinds, as hunters tried every trick in the book to bring home the legal bag limit...
PAUL L. EVANS Director of Information Tennessee Valley Authority Knoxville, Tenn...
...budget deficit for the fiscal year will hit $825 million, much of it chargeable to the "ridiculously low" rates of the San Francisco Valley Hydroelectric Agency and other government agencies...
...write it"). The second was too complicated. But the third, consisting of simple tunes with skeletal, guitarlike accompaniments, rang the bell. Composer Kay scoured source books for western tunes, came up with twelve of them, from Old Taylor, Rye Whisky and Lolly-Too-Dum to Red River Valley (which he used as a unifying theme). Balanchine took the piano sketch to his rehearsal hall and roughed in dance movements with his company. When Balanchine & Co. got back from a successful West Coast tour last month, the score was ready. Last week in Manhattan, the New York City Ballet presented...
...restricted areas of the econo my, workers have actually had to take pay cuts. Most notable were the cuts by Kaiser-Willys and Studebaker (TIME. April 26; Aug. 23), which may soon be followed by downward adjustments in fringe benefits by American Motors. In eastern Pennsylvania's Panther Valley last week, some coal mines closed by Lehigh Navigation Coal earlier this year were getting ready to start production under new operators. The action was made possible by a work-harder, produce-more plan signed by the union...