Word: valleyful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Willard Van Dyke's tragic study of technological unemployment, Valley Town...
About the biggest morale booster to us forgotten men of the Assam Valley was the news broadcast concerning the momentous speech of Sergeant Marion Hargrove [TIME, Dec. 17], ex of the U.S. Army. The chairman was right in calling him a nice young fellow. We feel that he speaks for us out here and for 10,000,000 other nice young fellows throughout the world...
Lincoln Ellsworth, 65, perennial polar explorer, was off again early in the first year of peace-perhaps the first robin of an old-fashioned explorers' spring. (Admiral Byrd had already begun to yearn aloud for the South Pole.) Explorer Ellsworth headed for the Rift valley volcanic areas in East Africa; after that, said he, would come the Antarctic again. "I just cannot keep away...
...Burbank, Calif, one day last week, a big shark-bodied plane rose from the Lockheed Air Terminal, circled out across the San Fernando Valley and headed east over the mountains. It was a notable event and a red-letter day for Pan American Airways: that was the first of the fleet of Lockheed Constellations for Pan Am's globe-girdling routes...
...Tennessee Valley Authority, which is regarded (outside the U.S.) as one of the wonders of the world, during 1945 burgeoned into the biggest integrated utilties system in the U.S. In its twelfth annual report, TVA told Congress that last year it had produced nearly 12 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power, more than any other single company in the U.S. TVA's nearest competitor: Niagara Hudson Power Corp...