Word: valleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meat for cartoonists and jokesmiths is the golfer who killed his caddy. But last week at Philadelphia's Huntingdon Valley Country Club, the thing actually happened. James B. McFarland III cut his drive at the fifth tee into deep rough. He swished his club angrily. It slipped from his hand, smote Caddy John Klemming, 35, in the temple. Klemming died before sundown. "I hope," said James B. McFarland III, "my experience will be a lesson to angry golfers...
Since then auto production has gone down a smooth grade to the late summer valley where the industry will change to its 1940 production models. Impatient for the next rise, the industry set the New York automobile show, which officially opens the 1940 model year, to begin October 15, earlier than ever before. But even this did not satisfy the impatience of motormakers to get the fall selling season started...
...like passes that widen and slope downward into Italy. In modern times no Army has invaded France from Italy, but although the Po and its tributaries form a series of defensive positions at which Italians could check invaders who penetrate the mountain barrier, at the western end of the valley lie Turin and, further east, Milan, Italy's chief industrial centres. If they should fall, Italy's war days might be numbered. Italy's problem is to check a military invasion at its outset -west of these cities...
...south of France. To the east the Italians were holding their greatest peacetime maneuvers, an exercise calculated to show what they would do if General Gamelin ever undertook to do what Napoleon did in 1796, strike through the Maritime Alpine passes and sweep across the Po Valley...
Notwithstanding his reticence, however, there was quite a celebration for Signor Mussolini. He came down from his mountain retreat at Rocca della Caminate in Romagna, to Predappio, his birthplace in the valley below, where 10,000 peasants from all parts of Italy greeted him with gifts of wine, fruit, spaghetti, cheese, olive oil. He reviewed them, told them his spirit was "unchangeably rural." They in turn filed past the tomb of Alessandro and Rosa Maltoni Mussolini, Il Duce's parents, visited the house where Benito Mussolini was born and the blacksmith shop where his father worked...