Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill's trip home to get the bad news gave Harry Truman a respite from Potsdam conferences. One day last week he climbed into a plane and flew to Frankfurt am Main to pay a call on General Dwight Eisenhower, who took him for a 100-mile Rhine Valley tour...
...been charging his first important account a measly $6,000 a year over & above expenses. For the rugged job ahead, he felt the city should pay nearer what some of his other clients (Sun Valley, Union Pacific, Coca Cola, Anaconda Copper, etc.) pay. He asked for $25,000. Last week, Miami Beach said...
...Mill Valley, Calif, (ten miles north of San Francisco) had an explosive outbreak of 18 cases...
Improvements in service and equipment Jeffers could understand, but he had no patience with luxury for de luxe sake. When Board Chairman W. Averell Harriman proposed the U.P.'s skiing resort at Sun Valley, Idaho, Jeffers said disgustedly: "The only thing I ever did with snow was to shovel it the hell off the track. Now you want to play with...
...brought it vividly alive for more short sighted mortals. He fought for it, hard and successfully, against the invasion of commercialism. Emerson named the bearded Scot in his private list of "My Men." His most notable victory was the long, touch-& -go battle for the conservation of Yosemite Valley. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have seen his best monument: the national parks...