Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before he died, this plain man and radical saw the monument that will preserve his name. That monument, not merely Norris Dam but the entire Tennessee Valley Authority, is greater than any Pharaoh or any emperor ever...
Well up the Rhone valley toward Lyons, a U.S. motorized cavalry reconnaissance troop, feeling the way for the main body, was stopped before a German resistance pocket. After sundown, TIME Correspondent John Osborne dropped in at the troop's farmhouse command post, saw the following little scene in the great drama...
That was all, except that the troop, promised a rest, got exactly half an hour of "rest," after they went into a rear area the next morning. When I last saw them, the column was on the road again, forming up for a counterattack in our valley...
This advance, by light, fast units, reached northward without running into any substantial trouble. Behind them the main Allied force turned to fan westward toward the Rhone valley, where the supply lines were better. In the south it seized Aries, Tarascon, and Avignon on the lower Rhone and crossed the river. Farther north it moved toward German garrisons at Montelimar, Valence and Lyons. By then the German escape route was a hopeless grid of Allied regulars and French irregulars...
Like many another farmer in western Washington's Satsop Valley, Albert Kuhlne pastured his cattle along a grass-grown waste of charred logs and blackberry thickets-the scorched remains of a forest fire in 1902. But this summer, as Northwest plywood and lumber mills went hungry for logs, Kuhlne wondered if the "old burn" might not still have some good timber in it. He sawed into a charred tree. After 42 years its core, sealed in by charcoal, was still sound. He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around...