Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mullings and the two children were crossing the sidewalk when Mullings, startled by an unfamiliar noise, looked up, saw the wall of the store crack, disintegrate, crash on the heads of his family. In nearby El Centro, a fire wall tumbled down on Clifford Moore. All through rich Imperial Valley, one night last week, ran the earthquake's shivers. They shook down buildings, cracked open the irrigation canal that carries the Valley's water, let precious water flow out over Mexico. Damage: more than $2,500,000. Dead: Mrs. Mullings and her children, Clifford Moore, four others...
...Armies rushing northward from the French border had time to reach prepared Belgian positions along the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liége, a swift and fierce German drive cracked the Liége defenses the second day. *Headquarters watched the progress of German columns up the Meuse Valley towards Namur and westward towards Louvain...
...first surprised the Germans 25 years ago, it was reported that 1,500 to 2,000 tanks milled, in scenes which, from the air, looked like a giant's parking lot gone mad. Both sides claimed the best of it but the German drive continued up the Sambre Valley and northwest toward Louvain...
Thrifty Christ Kutras ran a Greek restaurant at Redding in California's deep, fertile Sacramento Valley. He put his profits into real estate outside of town. When construction began in 1938 on the $36,000,000 Shasta Dam, devised to stabilize Sacramento Valley's water supply, engineers built a ten-mile belt line to convey 10,000,000 cubic yards of gravel to the world's No. 2 dam. For their gravel pit they chose Christ Kutras' tract of land...
...Mule Team (M.G.M.) contains, in addition to the 20 mules, two Beerys-Wallace and Noah Jr. Wallace is no surprise as a sly, slobbering, guzzling mule skinner employed by a borax company to haul its product out of Death Valley. Leo Carrillo is a big surprise as a pigeon-toed Indian. Biggest surprise of all is Marjorie Rambeau trying to act like a saloonkeeper...