Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to represent Vichyfrance in Washington. Fifteen months ago, when Vichy broke off relations with the U.S., M. Henry-Haye was tenderly interned (along with his pedigreed Dalmatian and his solicitous staff) in a $24-a-day suite at swank, luxurious Hotel Hershey, in Pennsylvania's pleasant Lebanon valley...
...were well chosen. At first they were new to the country, poorly coordinated, confused by Washington rivalries. But they gradually got together under the leadership of Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, did their big job fairly well. The only bad mess was the wild rubber program in the Amazon Valley, where Americans did not take proper advantage of native experience...
Gilpin noted an important distinction between the North American and other sections of this belt. North America was a huge concave bowl, sloping into the central Mississippi Valley. This made communication easy, helped trade, brought people together, promoted harmony, made for a fundamental geographical unity. The result, he predicted, would be an immense growth in U.S. wealth, an eventual population of more than a billion...
...down the Rio Grande Valley, Texas truck farmers were destroying most of the biggest vegetable crop they had ever raised. The losses were figured in millions...
...farmers had no choice. The whole intricate system of food distribution from one of the richest U.S. agricultural regions had collapsed. In other years the bulk of the Rio Grande Valley crops had been shipped to market in trucks that swarmed the highways. (There are few railroads.) But this year only dozens of trucks-not hundreds-appeared. Truck drivers and owners are in uniform, or working in war plants. And many trucks are laid up for lack of tires and parts...