Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This supposition is only part of the truth. Now 51, Henry .Wallace was born and grew up on an Iowa farm. His grandfather and father before him were well-off, distinguished editors and gentlemen who in Iowa society had positions somewhat akin to the aristocratic Roosevelts in the Hudson Valley...
...climate machine which brings all but the view of any resort from Miami Beach to Sun Valley right into the home. Duplicated are proportions of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the air, humidity, smells and (via sunlamp) its special brand of sunshine...
This summer, profiting by last winter's invitation tour of the Orient, Kovacs is belatedly living up to the promise he showed two years ago. Last month he whipped Frankie Parker in straight sets in the Missouri Valley championship. Last fortnight, in Long Island's Nassau Bowl tournament, he trounced Gil Hunt, Joe Hunt and Elwood Cooke, three of America's top-rungers...
More than friends, they were partners in as strange and binding a relationship as any in U. S. political history. Franklin Roosevelt of the baronial Hudson Valley, of Groton, Harvard, the Wilson sub-Cabinet, was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920 when he first met Jim Farley, the Irish Catholic, grubbing young politico from plebeian Grassy Point across the Hudson and downstream. Mr. Roosevelt does not remember that meeting; it was at a crowded reception in Manhattan. Jim Farley does, in every detail, down to what his bride said, and the feel of his palm in Franklin Roosevelt...
...sales-both residential and industrial-have been soaring. More than one power-hungry chemical company on TVA's lines feared the growing load might cause a shortage, hamper defense. The steam plant is to insure against a repetition of last fall's hydro shortage, when the valley was visited by a combined boom and drought (TIME...