Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rule the great northwestern dairy area. No new stores of sugar from the occupied beet-sugar district around Lille are destined for Free France. Free France will eat none of this summer's harvest from the breadbasket of the northern plains. There is still tobacco in the Rhone Valley and Auvergne, but those shops in Provence that still have stocks also have queues outside, and in the Mediterranean departments few people any longer smoke. Gasoline in Free France is rationed to refugees going north, to a few indispensable services, and to officials...
...Defense Advisory Commission's twelve principles for letting defense contracts. One was that contracts should go to companies with adequate power sources, another that defense industries should be decentralized for efficiency and for military reasons (i.e., should be behind mountains if possible). Both pointed to "the Valley" as a good spot for defense plants...
...except for fertilizer (which it makes at Muscle Shoals), TVA does not expect to exploit these resources. Once a gobbler of private utilities, David Lilienthal is now engaged in creating attractions for private capital to come to his Valley. At the same time ("We have obligations to the country as a whole.") he has to avoid acting like a local Chamber of Commerce. The metamorphosis in his character and reputation is locally known as "the dehorning of Dave." Says he nowadays: "I hold no truck with master planning. You can't carry people around. In the first place they...
...clashing view points. As a backwoods member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Matt is fired by rabble-rousing Patrick Henry (Richard Gaines), and by the quiet logic of his good friend Thomas Jefferson (Richard Carlson). When war comes he marches off to battle, endures the black days of Valley Forge. Meanwhile Jane returns to the house of her Tory brother (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). The ending leaves Matt and Jane reconciled not so much by the bright future of peace as by the clearer understanding which peace will bring to their personal conflicts...
...great public power projects at Boulder . . .and at Bonneville . . . are reassuring. Both are liquidating their commitments to the Government. . . . Where irreconcilable conflicts arise . . . private holdings should not be confiscated, and we now have a working precedent . . in the recent acquisition by purchase of private companies by the Tennessee Valley Authority." (Wendell Willkie had read this section of the speech in advance...