Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toscanini, voluntary exile from Italy since 1938, had flown to Italy at his own expense, to conduct six concerts without pay. He had obviously been homesick for his native land, but when he got to his family home in the green Po Valley, he soon seemed homesick for the U.S. He sighed to friends of New York's climate and California's wines, and whispered wistfully over a dish of spaghetti: "But you should taste the spaghetti in the United States...
...poured down on the wheat fields of Red River Valley and on the crowd gathered around a dusty truck. A sunburned farmer squinted appraisingly at a little man standing and shouting on the truck's tailpiece. "He wouldn't be no account on a thrashin' gang," the farmer said. "But I reckon he's smart. And he talks plain...
...York, now head of UNRRA, who had swooped into North Dakota, wearing a pearl-grey sombrero. Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson, wearing a tie painted with pink and yellow apples, was with him-at LaGuardia's urgent request. For two days they had scurried across Red River Valley, looking for wheat for UNRRA...
...Real Thing. Across 70 miles of Red River Valley flatlands, past fields of new-seeded wheat, he and Anderson drove to Climax, Minn. (pop. 253). Some 3,000 farmers, wives & children turned out to see them. They watched wheat being loaded into a Northern Pacific train. "This is as near the real thing as I've seen," Butch exulted, and with a mouth full of tacks started hammering signs on the wheat cars: MORE FOOD FOR UNRRA...
Where was the food for the" hungry world (see above) coming from? Most of it would come from the U.S. heartland, the valley of the 2,000-mile-long Mississippi River and its tremendous tributaries, the Missouri, the Ohio, the Arkansas, the Red River of the North, the Red River of the South...