Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have read with great interest your article on Foreign Relations, "The Strongest Force" [TIME, April 26], and I think the address to the Mississippi Valley World Trade Conference made by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. expresses the right point on your battle of the cold war, as it is conceived by many persons here in this outpost of our civilization...
...fierce-faced, khaki-clad soldiers of Transjordan's ist Mechanized Regiment had swirled and stamped, with arms interlocked, in traditional Arab war dances. With the first glimmer of dawn on the day after Israel was born, they began to wind down the road to the Jordan Valley in tanks, armored cars and trucks, slapping at mosquitoes in the heat. They crossed the river by Allenby Bridge, moved toward Jericho. Some Legionnaires were in Palestine already. Their first operations, confined to the Arab allotment in Palestine under the U.N. partition plan, were to occupy villages north and south of Jerusalem...
...hustled down the rainswept Willamette Valley, over to the Pacific Coast and back to the central Oregon lumber country-pumping hands, signing autographs, ripping off ten speeches a day. He peered at cows in Corvallis, at logging operations along the Umpqua River. He accepted a salmon at Oregon City, signed his name in blood for a local booster club at Coos Bay, paraded with an organization called the "Cavemen" at Grants Pass and, at their bidding, munched on a large bone. When his bus ran over a dog near Salem, he shipped off a pedigreed cocker to the bereaved owners...
...against: shipment of potential war material to Russia; price-control and rationing; the proposed Missouri Valley Authority...
...give-away craze, fired by Miss Hush and the Walking Man, reached white heat. Last week's prizes ranged from a burnt match to a "new future" (a completely furnished three-bedroom house in San Fernando Valley, a Kaiser and a choice of jobs). One program, Mutual's Queen for a Day, bragged that it had given away $1,117,000 in three years. With the pile of prizes mounting at every flick of the dial, networkers were not certain just how much was being offered, but guessed that last week's kitty amounted to about...