Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among the deferred seven was WPB's No. 3 executive, big, hardheaded Julius Albert ("Cap") Krug, 36, father of two. "Cap" Krug sparkplugs WPB as vice chairman in charge of production programs. He learned power technique inside out as a kind of general manager for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He also learned how to get along with industrialists-and Congressmen. This wisdom he has needed in Washington. On WPB he became chairman of the potent requirements committee, and director of the Office of War Utilities; is indisputably one of Washington's genuine key men. Chairman Don Nelson says...
...troops did well. Total Japanese killed in the Walawbum-Maingkwan area were estimated at 2,000-800 by General Merrill's marauding infantrymen, 700 by the Chinese 22nd and 38th divisions, 500 by Chinese-manned tanks under Colonel Rothwell H. Brown. Total Japanese dead in the Hukawng Valley by week...
...each man under two blankets and a poncho, pestered by continuous rains and leeches. Last week they were repaid for all their discomforts, all their meticulous training: the stunned Japs were completely surprised to find U.S. troops throwing a road block across their only supply line in the Hukawng Valley...
...Amber Charles Davidson, 17, a stocky, curly-haired Mormon farm boy of Fort Bridger, Wyo. Besides running his father's farm (his father runs a garage), Amber paints, plays the cornet, is light-heavyweight boxing champion of Bridger Valley, captained his high-school (Lyman Seminary) football team. A self-taught scientist, he began to put motors together at six, now has a departmentalized one-man laboratory with separate booths for research in electronics, photography, radio, lens grinding, chemistry, astronomy, biology. He has built a radio-controlled boat, is working on two projects in which he thinks the Army...
...days would be 166% of normal. Actual figure at year's end: 158%. He also correctly predicted the three days of heaviest Washington rainfall in January and February this year. Once, consulted by an Army engineer, he predicted that during a three-month period rainfall in the Tennessee Valley would be 84 to 87% of normal...