Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blood was shed last week at Green Mountain Dam in the Colorado Rockies, where a private contractor is building a dam for the U. S. Reclamation Bureau. Five A. F. of L. unions struck last month for a closed shop at the dam. Last week 200 deputized vigilantes (non-strikers, ranchers, businessmen) attacked the strikers, shot and wounded five, subsided only when Governor Ralph L. Carr sent National Guardsmen to quell "a state of insurrection...
...Ages and Renaissance raiders poured through the funnel-like passes that widen and slope downward into Italy. In modern times no Army has invaded France from Italy, but although the Po and its tributaries form a series of defensive positions at which Italians could check invaders who penetrate the mountain barrier, at the western end of the valley lie Turin and, further east, Milan, Italy's chief industrial centres. If they should fall, Italy's war days might be numbered. Italy's problem is to check a military invasion at its outset -west of these cities...
When he was in Brazil, the General did a great deal of riding. He occasionally does some now. When he commanded Chasseurs Alpins he skied and climbed mountains. Mountain skiing is his favorite sport, but he gets almost none of it nowadays. Nor has he touched his paint box for years. "If we could be sure of a little peace for a while," he recently sighed to an aide, "I might get back to painting...
Even the few anecdotes about this thoroughly professional little man take on some of their subject's small, neat dignity. Last year, visiting a Chasseurs' encampment on a mountain plateau, he shook hands with familiar oldtimers and then was taken to the picket line to see some of the St. Bernards who do the outfit's liaison work. Gravely the General kneeled down and shook hands with the best of them...
...travelers with business at in-between stops, all-day outings for romancing youngsters, tourists bargain-shopping for local color. Tremulous were the moonlit nights with the sighing of accordion bands from riverside bals musettes, whispery the riverside dingles with the billing & cooing of pic-necking couples. As Bear Mountain boats to Manhattan outers were the Seine fly boats to Parisians...