Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's Symphony No. 28 in C Major, the third movement from Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Strauss's Artist's Life waltz, world premiere of Arthur Lange's Antelope Valley. Conductor: Frank Black...
...controls ten oil companies and pipelines, a Cincinnati soap factory, two Texas waterworks, sizable chunks of five Rio Grande Valley banks, two small newspapers, bus systems in Austin and Waco, a San Antonio wholesale house, a silverware factory in Mexico, an inland waterway barge line, the Dixie Bus Lines, a Dallas chili plant, and 22% of Henry Holt & Co., Inc., Manhattan book publishers...
...down the ravaged Mississippi Valley last week, at least 48,000 refugees straggled back from the hills to homes and farms reeking with flood muck. Truck gardens were gone. Livestock was drowned. In 40 days, at least 4,000,000 acres of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois had suffered an estimated $500 million damage-a cost only 25% below that of TVA, and slightly less than the money spent on Mississippi flood control in the last 16 years...
...paper listing his little daily expenses to be passed along to his manager-brother, Winter D. Horton. "Taxes, you know," explains Edward, who pays taxes on considerably more than his stage & screen income. He has built, furnished and rented "seven lovely houses" on his 25-acre San Fernando Valley farm, which a Hollywood wag christened "Belleigh Acres." Edward says: "My, but it's been an easy life...
...Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. (the Monon*) as a rickety single-track line that was chiefly notable for carrying Lincoln's funeral train in 1865. For years it carried little other traffic. Although the Monon's 541 miles of track tapped the rich Chicago and Ohio Valley areas, the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads carried the region's freight and passengers. In 1933 the Monon went into receivership. It all but stopped carrying passengers; they were a nuisance. It ran freight trains only when there was enough freight to fill them. Then the war brought...