Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter was tightening its screws on the Hudson Valley when the ship Experimenter hastily cleared from Newburgh, N. Y., before the Hudson should become ice-locked. Aboard, with a crew of two, was her owner, Professor Walter B. Pitkin, author (Life Begins at 40), lecturer, a man of many ideas, some of them large...
...boat builders had collaborated. Her four keels were laid on the principle of a catamaran. On her two lofty basketwork masts, which looked like Eiffel Towers, the resourceful professor planned to rig square sails which would unfurl, furl at the touch of a button. The freeze-up in the valley had made him rush his plans, and under bare baskets the Experimenter buzzed off among the gathering ice-cakes, pushed by her twin Diesel engines. It was New Year...
There are now 750 doctors serving 38,000 migrant members through ten health oases, "extending south to the Imperial Valley and north as far as Willows, Marysville, and Santa Rosa." When the migrant population shifts to greener fields, the Association's local offices follow them...
...league utilitarian, heard from last week, is George Tidd, who runs the $523,000,000 American Gas and Electric system, in nine States from the Tennessee Valley to Lake Michigan. American Gas was put together in 1907 by Harrison Williams of North American Co., and Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, now retired, formerly head of Electric Bond & Share, which owns 19% of American Gas common. Tidd is an operating man who once indicated to a Washington investigation that a great deal of the finance in his own power system was over his head. Nevertheless, in 1933 he showed what he thought...
Driving alone to their San Fernando Valley ranch one night last week, Dorothy Mackaye hit a soft shoulder. Her car turned over, pinned her beneath the steering wheel...