Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...missed the . . . point most likely to interest TIME'S readers. Four small counties in Northern California-Napa, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Alameda (which includes the Livermore Valley) produce together less than a third of California's annual 140 million gallons. Yet, in the field of table wine, these counties won 19 out of 20 gold and all 23 silver medals...
Some of the best sights were free. At the horticultural stalls, even Texans were startled to see 13-inch avocados and twelve-inch Ponderosa lemons from the Rio Grande Valley. And, through a loan from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, fairgoers got a look at the greatest collection of old masters ever shown in Texas (TIME, Sept. 29). On opening day, 10,000 people took in the art show...
Crescent Flag. One focus of the trouble lies in the northwest. There, in the Ili valley where the flag of China should fly, a green flag with a yellow crescent moon and a five-pointed star has flown for nearly three years. The region contains about a million people (total Sinkiang population: about 4,000,000), mostly Moslem Turki farmers and Kazak horsemen who live in felt yurts (tents) and ride with rifles strapped on their backs. They are controlled by leaders trained and schooled in Russia. Behind the leaders is a well-equipped army of more than...
...first time the Hi valley has seen strange flags. Soldiers of Czarist Russia moved into the fertile Ili in the middle 1870s. The Manchu Dowager Empress, in one of her few feats of diplomacy, persuaded them to depart...
This year Hollywood plans to reissue at least 68 pictures, twice as many as last year. Moviegoers are already seeing, or will see, Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford in The Women (1939), Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley (1941), Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart in Destry Rides Again (1939), Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard in Intermezzo (1939) and Paul Muni in Scarface...