Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snow was general over the Southern States last week. A high-pressure area sweeping southeast from the frozen Mackenzie Basin of northern Canada brought in a week of sleet and rain, of wintry winds that ruined the tomato crop of the lower Rio Grande, killed cattle in the Kissimmee Valley of Florida, and spread a blanket of snow over the red clay of Georgia hills, over the pine woods of Alabama and the low Louisiana marshlands. Snow fell at Laredo on the Mexican border, beginning one midnight and falling until 5 the next morning, to the wonder of the natives...
Texas. In Houston the plumbers' union (A. F. of L.) won much-needed public good will when it agreed to drop overtime, work straight hours repairing plumbing. The Rio Grande Valley was hard hit: half the citrus crop near Brownsville was still on the trees, and Brownsville, at 29°, was colder than Nome, Alaska at 33°; 75% of the tomato crop was believed killed; beets and cabbages in the coastal bend near Corpus Christi were damaged. Estimated value of endangered fruit...
Down in No'th Ca'lina, which some unkind person once called a valley of self-consciousness between two mountains of conceit (Virginia and South Carolina), they appreciate a politician. When Jim Farley stopped off at Charlotte's Southern Railway station one day last week, the mayor gave Democratic Chairman Farley the city's key, Charlotte's postmen gave Postmaster General Farley a leather traveling bag and the Elks gave Elk Farley a hat which unfortunately proved to be a couple of sizes too small for his bald head...
...Japanese troops from China. ... I am sending this message from my inner heart." Terms of the pact: Chinese recognition of Manchukuo; North China and Mongolia to be a "special zone for defense and economic development for Japan"; recognition of Japan's economic predominance in the rich lower Yangtze Valley and in islands off China; Japanese garrisons to be maintained; reduction of Chinese police and Army forces...
...Russian Army, estimated 200,000 strong, based on Tiflis and stationed throughout one of Russia's favorite training grounds, the Kura River valley. Through this valley from the wells at Baku to refineries at Batum (see map), runs Russia's prime oil pipeline. Another line runs north of the Caucasus from Grozny to Tuapse on the Black...