Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like lion cubs unleashed, San Fernando Valley schoolchildren in the Pacoima area of Los Angeles burst out of classrooms one morning last week to test returning sunshine and the soft sea air that had swept away a week's foul weather. They found the world newly come alive, trees and stuccoed buildings glistening magically in rain-washed brilliance. Overhead, winter's deep blue sky throbbed to the scream of jets and the snarl of conventional piston engines. But to the San Fernando Valley's children, raised around Southern California's cluster of major aircraft plants...
Instead of the usual second feature, the program is filled out by hastily selected short subjects. Magoo and Skiing at Sun Valley are enjoyable. It is advisable to leave after the latter. But even sitting through all three and a half hours is recompensed by the unsubtle humor of The Teahouse of the August Moon, a movie that makes a worthwhile point without moralizing or being unpleasant...
...Ohio valley still has plenty of problems to solve before it realizes its full promise. River channels, locks and navigation facilities are badly outdated, need to be modernized before industry can get the most out of the Ohio as a new route to market. Much of the highway system is in even worse shape. The Ohio valley's population, with one of the lowest per-family incomes ($1,391 a year) in the entire U.S., needs to be trained to operate modern industry's new machines. But no businessman doubts that it will be done. Said a Kaiser Aluminum official...
...clear field to the state-owned Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (formerly the Fascist A.G.I.P.) that has grown under government pampering into a $100 million combine with a stranglehold on Italy's oil and natural gas. Four years ago, after spending some $10 million to find oil in the Po Valley...
Esso similarly quit when the government turned over the entire valley to E.N.I...