Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the expedition reached Edmonton some time next May, the men of Musk-Ox would have traveled 800 airline miles (1,150 route miles) north to Cambridge Bay, some 600 more southwest to Fort Norman on the mighty Mackenzie River, and 900 airline miles south in the Mackenzie Valley. It would be comparable to a trip from Tallahassee to Chicago to central Nebraska to Corpus Christi. The region has been visited so infrequently by man that close-up maps of it are liberally sprinkled with such vague comments as "flat country" and "rolling plains with numerous lakes...
Tokle's old No. 1 competitor, Norwegian-born, 36-year-old Alf Engen of Sun Valley, set the new course record at 259 feet to win the first National Ski Championships since 1942. His leap was still 30 feet short of Tokle's U.S. record jump, made off Michigan's Iron Mountain in 1942-and far short of the 300-ft. jump that Tokle had predicted for Steamboat Springs...
...Texas, ex-Army Pilots William V. Wood and Bill Dobbins pooled their $16,000 savings to buy two surplus planes. Last week their Fleetwood Airways started flying the San Antonio Evening News to subscribers in the Rio Grande Valley, 230 miles away. But that brought in only $40 a day, hardly enough to cover expenses. Others were not even that lucky...
...cold California fog hung over San Joaquin Valley. Inside Beardsley's dance hall, near Bakersfield, the air was steaming with the exertions of 1,358 oil workers and farmers as they jived, jumped, or just jogged to the music. The men were mostly tieless; the fruit-cannery girls they danced with were mostly in sweaters and slacks. On the platform, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys tapped their pointed, hand-stitched boots, and plunked and blew their way through Take Me Back to Tulsa. On benches lining the walls, babies in blankets slept through...
...Pappy, Wills took his boys to Tulsa, where they adopted their present name, the "Texas Playboys." He had just hit the big time, with film and recording contracts, when he enlisted in 1942. When he got out of the Army a year later, he moved to the San Joaquin Valley...