Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scranton had fallen on evil days. Anthracite had once been king in the Lackawanna Valley, but the king was dead. Hard coal diggings had scarred Scranton's hills and undermined its streets; the exhausted mines threatened to cave in the whole economy of the polyglot community among the culm dumps of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Even the war had given Scranton only a cardboard security...
...Manitoba Hard." Manitobans pricked up their ears. Ever since Lord Selkirk and his band of British crofters had sailed across Hudson Bay in 1814 and then portaged to the rich Red River Valley, agriculture has been king in Manitoba. The valley's rich, black velvety soil had been the magnet which drew colonists. They hugged the area close to the U.S. border, grew Canada's best grade wheat (No. 1 Manitoba Northern Hard) and other grains in enormous quantities...
...holy city of Jerusalem last week, Palestine's destructive factions were considering at least one purely constructive project: a Jordan Valley Authority. The plan had been carefully worked out by leading U.S. authorities on irrigation and hydroelectric power. Zionists saw it as a way to make desolate Palestine the populous, fertile country it was in Bible times...
Chief geographical feature, and chief hope of Palestine, is the extraordinary Jordan Valley, a deep "rift" which formed when a block of the earth's crust dropped several thousand feet. The lowest part, at the south, is filled by the Dead Sea, whose surface is 1,290 feet below the surface of the Mediterranean. The plentiful run-off from the Lebanon Mountains flows into the northern end of the rift near Lake Tiberias (the Biblical Sea of Galilee), then south through the Jordan River, and is finally lost in the Dead Sea's heavy brine...
...great canal will carry most of the Jordan-bound water to thirsty lands in the famous Plain of Esdraelon, and along the Mediterranean coast. The rest will irrigate the narrow, hot Jordan valley. But the Jordan itself will not go wholly dry, as it did when Joshua commanded the Israelites in the attack on unfortunate Jericho...