Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...federal grand jury in San Francisco. The charge: violating antitrust laws by operating a worldwide cartel in borax. The antitrust division alleged that the companies controlled over 90% of the world supply (used for bombs, steel and copper alloys, etc.), most of which comes from California's Mojave Desert. The companies allegedly had kept prices skyhigh, had eliminated competition, and had hampered the war effort seriously. The antitrust action further charged that American Potash & Chemical was secretly owned by Germans, through a Netherlands dummy company, until October 1942 when the Alien Property Custodian took over...
Disaster Compounded. As the week began, there had been inspired rumors that Bulgaria was about to desert the Axis. But before the Bulgars could act, the Rumanians beat them to it. King Mihai himself jumped on the Allied bandwagon and, for once, a Balkan king's act represented the will of the people (see FOREIGN NEWS). For the Wehrmacht, defections in the Balkans meant disaster at astronomically compounded interest: 22 German divisions on the Rumanian front were doomed to defeat, most of them to death or capture; 25 Rumanian divisions which had been helping the Nazis turned against them...
From there Leclerc made his way to London and Africa, organized a French fighting force in the Cameroons. In long, quick strokes over the desert, he harassed the Italians in Fezzan. When Montgomery began his march toward Tripoli, Leclerc moved his force north from Fort Lamy, over 1,200 miles of desert and mountains in 39 days. From Tripoli, he advanced with Montgomery into Tunisia...
...Nikolay Tsitsin, the Soviet Union's 46-year-old Luther Burbank, had produced a new annual wheat yielding 144 bushels an acre, quadrupling the best previous yield in the Moscow latitude. He had also got the first live seeds from attempts to cross wheat and rye with a desert plant (Elymus giganteus), which may make it possible to grow those grains almost anywhere, thus opening to cultivation 150,000,000 acres of hitherto untillable Soviet land. The biggest news, however, was this: Nikolay Tsitsin appeared on the verge of perfecting a perennial, self-sowing wheat-the dream of farmers...
...Author. Since settling (1938) in California, where climate and treatment have helped his ailing eyesight, Aldous Huxley has collaborated on two cinema scripts (Pride and Prejudice; Jane Eyre), written five books. Now 51, he lives with his wife Martha on a lonely ranch near Llano in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles from Los Angeles. "The only social life,"he says, "is with the cows." The Huxleys' son Matthew, 22, is a reader for Warner Bros...