Word: valleyes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate by voice vote gave the Tennessee Valley Authority permission to issue and sell up to $750 million worth of bonds to help finance its power system. The Administration had requested authority for the Budget Bureau to approve the sales, but Congress reserved that authority for itself. It also put a five-mile limit on further TVA territorial expansion...
Mecca to Arafat. On the eighth day came the final stage of the pilgrimage-the 15-mile walk to the valley of Arafat, where all hadjis must be present at the same time to listen to prayers recited on Mount Arafat. The temperature that day was well over 100°, and the old and weak were dropping everywhere. Tubs of water were available for dunking heat-exhaustion victims. "Even if they don't recover," said one veteran, "they are perfectly happy, because they have died on a hadj.'' The death rate for this year's pilgrimage...
Operating in the black for the first month this year, the Lehigh Valley Railroad chalked up profits of $87,121 in May v. last May's loss of $284.321. The Norfolk & Western Railway raised its income in the first five months to $19 million with a $4,500,000 profit in May. One exception: the New Haven Railroad (TIME, June 22), which fell deeper into the red in May with a $517,039 loss, its fifth consecutive monthly loss and $150,000 greater than its loss in recession May 1958. To give the railroads hope for even better earnings...
...capture, brainwashing and reflex-conditioning of an entire American patrol during the Korean war. Before grinning Russian brasshats, he shows off his success. The Americans puff contentedly on yak dung cigarettes and delicately avoid G.I. profanity-they imagine they are attending a meeting of the garden club in Spring Valley, N.J. They are so thoroughly Pavloved, in fact, that they are ready to commit murder on signal...
...provided a meeting place for the lackadaisical citizens of Visegrad. On summer evenings the townsfolk strolled its length, bought melons and cherries from the peasants, sipped thick Turkish coffee. The town elders sat smoking in the middle of the bridge, looked with contentment on the Bosnian mountains ringing their valley, gravely discussed public matters. The young men came to sing and joke, to flirt with passing girls or lean dreaming on the parapet. On such soft nights, a man on the bridge felt as if he were on a magic swing: "He swung over the earth and the waters...