Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Subject: Paul C. Smyth's letter published in TIME, Aug. 8. "Situation Wanted." Evidently I was one of the 16 who wrote Smyth. This valley needs man power. There are farming opportunities here for energetic, ablebodied, willing workers. . . . Climate similar to that of Denver, elevation 5,280, to that of Salt Lake City, elevation 4,300 ft. (elevation my home 4,777) Bees, turkeys, hogs, sheep, cattle, hay, grain do very well. I can supply two families with land and irrigation water...
...befits the No. 1 idol of U. S. youth, Autry does not drink or smoke. He lives with his pretty wife on a ten-acre "ranch" in San Fernando Valley, where he stables "Champion" and his five other less famed horses. Last year sales of Autry's phonograph records equaled those of Bing Crosby's. A manufacturer who set up a line of toy revolvers modeled on the one he carries sold 100,000 in three weeks...
...collection of original drawings, sketches, and scrapbooks of the late Robert Redington Sharpe, noted American stage designer, has been presented to the Theatre Collection of the University Library by Hugh C. Sharpe II, of Valley Falls, New York...
...building of the U. S. Department of Labor was opened in Washington in 1935, an exhibition of 15 paintings dignified it. They were by John Kane, Pittsburgh laborer and house painter whose canvases stand alone in U. S. art as monumental documents of the Monongahela and Allegheny Valley steel country. An Irishman, who grew up working in Scottish mines and came to the U. S. at 19, Kane was unknown as an artist until he was past 60. He died in 1934 at 74. This week the rugged, blue-eyed, peg-legged man's extraordinary autobiography, Sky Hooks...
...circular dial face marked off in degrees like a compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer on the bearing. Following this bearing, the plane chased over villages and farms, finally passed over Valley Stream Airport. As it did, the tell-tale needle swung full around, pointed backwards, spotted the truck parked behind a hangar...