Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several blocks from the river front, the floods only wet the city's feet. But in the farm lands to the south, as far as the broad mouth of the Ohio River, every man that could be mustered worked on the levees as the flood swept down the valley...
...midsection of the Mississippi Valley was not the only part of the Midwest in serious trouble last week. A million and a half acres of rich corn soil had been drowned out by rain that had fallen all but nine days during the month of June. The Missouri was 10.3 feet above flood stage and still rising. In Iowa, Agriculture Department experts called erosion losses (over 5 million acres) the worst in corn-belt history...
...government staged a "national dish" contest, offered $1,000 in prizes. Contest rules called for a dish "distinctive to Alberta" which could be served by restaurants for not more than $1. Six thousand plain and fancy recipes (including one from a wag who suggested "grilled gophers fried in Turner Valley oil with Alberta gas over a mountain range") swamped contest headquarters. Last week in Edmonton, the judges selected a plain-sounding winner...
Meeting Europe's coal shortage Professor Mason termed the most pressing difficulty. "England is now out of the coal export market," he explained, and the Ruhr Valley is operating at half the pre-war level. Poland, the third great source of Europe's solid fuel, is now shipping the greater part of its output East...
...tight little valley high in the Andes, the 400-year-old capital city of Quito (pop. 174,000) was astir with a new kind of bustle. Its Conservative mayor, tall, thin Jacinto Jijén y Caamano, 57, was making things hum. He had talked President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra into borrowing $4,000,000 in Washington to build the city's first aqueduct since Inca times. Said Mayor Jijén (pronounced "he-hone"): "This summer, for the first time, Quito will have water...