Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These June nights, when the drawn-out whistle of the steam engine streaking across Kansas sets the farmer's dog a-barking, or when valley dwellers hear her coming round the mountain with brakes on after the two-engined chuff up the Continental Divide, like as not the long string of cars will be sleepers-Pullmans full of soldiers, destination and route secret...
Endicott Peabody, 2d, Syracuse, N. Y.; John H. Powel, Providence, R. I.; Fred K. Queen, Needham, Heights; Geraldyn L. Redmond, Locust Valley, L. I., N. Y.; Roger P. Stokey, Atlanta, Ga.; John J. Sullivan, Jr., Cliftondale; Roger E. Tatton, Maplewood, N. J.; George R. Wadleigh, Jamestown, R. I.; William Wesselhoeft, Boston; Norman H. Whitehead, Jr., Providence, R. I.; Gerald Whitehead, Jr., Providence, R. I.; Greenwich, Conn.; Donald B. Wilson, Winchester; Edwin T. Witherby, Jr., Boston; and William M. Wood, Louisville...
...They might need to transfer to the East Coast run many of the tank cars now tied up for local service in the Middle West-even if that requires some politically inexpedient form of mild rationing in the Mississippi Valley...
Reading a statement like Crowe's strikes me at the very roots. It makes me realize what Valley Forge must have been, and the Marne, and Lincoln's dark hours. It makes me know what the American heritage is. It makes me realize our finest youth has a vision that our big shots lack. And it makes me believe that Ayres' creed, and mine, may win through in a world where some men like Crowe exist. It makes me realize, humbly, that there is something in the heart of fighters like him to which we owe honor...
...bringing millions of Government dollars into his State, Tennessee's aging, knob-nosed, spoils-loving Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar loves TVA. But he hates TVA's hard-working Director David E. Lilienthal. Last week, torn between love and hate, he turned his Valley grudge into a mountain feud...