Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settled down on the grimy industrial towns of Pennsylvania's Monongahela Valley one day last week, blurred the bleak outlines of steel mills and foundries, and softened the glare of great furnaces. At sooty Donora (pop. 13,500), it was particularly heavy; the hills stand close and no breath of breeze had reached its streets. The haze thickened as locomotives and the high stacks of U.S. Steel's huge Donora Zinc Works sent fumes into the still air. But nobody paid much attention to the smoke-laden mist. The zinc plant had been operating for more than...
...Plain Murder." What had caused their deaths? Medical authorities remembered that over 60 people and hundreds of horses and cattle had perished during a heavy fog in Belgium's Meuse Valley in 1930; industrial gases had mingled in the fog, had gone through a series of chemical reactions and resolved into droplets of sulphuric acid. Dr. William Rongaus of the Donora Board of Health was certain that his town's tragedy was also the result of industrial fumes collecting in the motionless, humid air. Said he, bitterly: "It's plain murder." The zinc smeltery shut down...
China's Hillsides. Even the Chinese, who are among the best farmers in the world, do not use their land to full advantage. Chinese farmers make the most of the plains and valley bottoms, but only in a few parts of the country do they farm the hillsides. These grow grass and brush, which are desperately needed for fuel. If the Chinese could mine and distribute their coal, they could turn the hillsides into productive pastures and orchards. This single item, according to one estimate, would add 10% to China's food supply...
...pretty little valley of Sunchon ("Peaceful Heaven") rests neatly at the bottom of the rugged Chiri Mountains, twelve miles north of the port of Yosu. On the morning of Oct. 20, Sunchon's farmers were harvesting their rice, when they heard a siren and the rattle of small arms from the railroad station. They looked up to see 2,000 rebel soldiers and 400 civilians swarming off a train from Yosu...
Ever since the Houses started to sprout in the Charles River valley in the early 1930's, a gradual change has come over he roster of students living at College and in the Houses. Whether it was the House Plan itself, the Great Depression, or something else that inspired it, the policy of the Administration for the last decade or so has been to bring a cross section of the American Population into the unit of the wealthy and well-born that once was Harvard. The theory has been that education involves more than factual and theoretical knowledge; it includes...