Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into the Valley, Guadalcanal Diary, Battle for the Solomons...
Major William Mallory, onetime Yale ('24) footballer, studied the huge map of northern Italy in his headquarters, noted that the wide Po River had remarkably few bridges. All the German supplies for the fighting front, all the raw materials for war industries in the Po Valley, had to funnel through some two dozen rail and road spans. Major Mallory drew his plan, presented it to his commander, Major General John K. Cannon of the Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force...
...year and a half ago Vice President Henry Wallace suggested that one major postwar project should be an international Tennessee Valley Authority. Other logical dreamers became more specific, talked of a DVA for the Danube, a YVA for the Yangtze, an AVA for the Amazon...
...morning we set out once more in the heat on the long road back. Chungking radio was telling of victories on Saipan, at Minsk, in Italy, in France. All we had to tell about was an obscure campaign in an unknown valley and the suffering of a sick, ragged, dauntless army...
...Slichter's facts towered optimistically above the pessimistic probability of the dark valley period. For the tasks of peace should not confound a people who had learned how to build a Liberty ship in seven days, who worked an average of 52 hours a week to keep the thundering trains rolling, and who plowed their vast fields by moonlight to raise bumper crops...