Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold wind blew out of the deep wooded Hudson valley and a bleak half-light streaked across the sky, President Roosevelt's widow and his successor stood in silence, with bowed heads. Only Secret Service men were near...
With the river valley his only market, Clayton first floated oil drums downstream to Iquitos as rafts tied together with vines and buoyed by balsa logs. Later he got barges, now has river tankers. During the war he sold gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil as far down the river as Manaus...
...with the arrival of peace Scranton's 140,000 citizens, unwilling to accept a ghost city in a deserted valley, decided to bet a chunk of solid cash on a new future. Spurred on by civic leader Ralph E. Weeks, president of world-famous International Correspondence Schools, they formed a corporation (The Scranton Plan Inc.), wrote a campaign song (Buy Scranton Bonds), and, on street corners, in barber shops and bars, at luncheons and rallies, began collecting $100 pledges...
Money gushed from unexpected springs. The bantam valley town of Jessup (pop. 6,000) sent the janitor of its four-room schoolhouse into Scranton with $19,000 dug out of attic trunks and sugar bowls. A team of 50 determined housewives left their breakfast dishes in the sink, stuck their feet in front doors until they had raised $300,000. Local 18 of the United Auto Workers (C.I.O.), mostly unemployed, sold $87,000 worth of bonds...
...cocked toward Latin America, have already plunked down $200,000 to buy two adjoining buildings in the business district, pledged themselves to plunk down $750,000 more to remodel them into a slick, air-conditioned home for a new International Trade Mart. Object: a year-round display of Mississippi Valley products...