Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House, for Secretary Stephen Early had refused to "put the lid on." At 7 p.m., in a 1,100-word statement, the President gave Secretary of War Stimson complete power over every one of the 233,670 miles of railroad track in the U.S., from the one-mile-long Valley Railroad in McKean County, Penna. to the $2,000,000,000 Pennsy (24,928 miles). The Secretary may even take over subways, tunnels and streetcar lines, if need...
...once & for all by Ludwig Bemelmans when he wrote of another popular voice (Richard Tauber's) that it made you feel the way you do when a waiter reaches under your overcoat to settle your clothing. Sinatra's voice has become a national feature comparable to Yosemite Valley or the word lubritorium. For Sinatra to have played anyone other than himself would have been as preposterously irreverent as it would be for President Roosevelt to play anyone but F.D.R...
Obviously there had been a conspiracy. Hudson Valley dairy farmers were irked at their neighbor's retirement from dairying at a time when profits are sagging and feed is short-and the Secretary of Agriculture has been pleading for more milk production...
...Mark Clark's Fifth Army climbed and clawed the mountain slopes where Wehrmacht pillboxes blocked the old Via Casilina route to the Tiber. By week's end, after three bloody days of artillery and infantry fighting, the Fifth took San Pietro village, moved toward the key Liri Valley town of Cassino...
Died. Annie Knight Gregory, 100, "last true Daughter of the American Revolution" (her father was one of George Washington's drummer boys at Valley Forge); in Williamsport...