Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some ores were found, but the real wealth of the Olympics is their mantle of giant fir, spruce, cedar and hemlock, their abounding game (trout, bear, cougar as well as elk), their scenery. Also during the War, the Government built a spruce production railroad there to get out special woods for airplane construction. The lumbering now is mostly in private hands (Weyerhaeuser, Long-Bell, Northern Pacific) and the jagged boundaries of the new park (see map) reflect many compromises between private and public forest ownership...
...watch the 3,000,000 foreigners in France a special mobile police of 40 chiefs, 215 detective inspectors was recently formed to reinforce the famed Deuxieme Bureau of the War Ministry, watchdog of French official secrets. Also the Minister of the Interior was empowered to expel or fix the residence of any foreigners. By decree last week Premier Edouard Daladier transferred espionage trials from civil tribunals to military and naval courts. The military law prescribes death for espionage; hence spies caught in the service of a foreign power, gathering information on inventions, manufactures, industrial methods, maps, documents or military plans...
...tolerated in his Party. Il Duce's news-organ Il Popolo d'Italia laid the law down recently: "Excessively fat members are undesirable in the Party ranks. . . . Their hearts, minds, nerves and muscles are all Fascist, but their bellies, no!" To Rome last week were ordered 45 special secretaries and inspectors of the Fascist Party. In the Forum Mussolini, with Il Duce watching, with pantherlike Fascist Secretary Achille Starace leading, the testees swam, jumped through blazing hoops, leaped from springboards over hedges of bayonets, tanks and armored cars. Casualties: Falls on bayonet points for two secretaries, a scorching...
Soon little station W2XR was showered with fan mail, commending its choice of programs, asking for more. Engineer Hogan's phonographic broadcasts were obviously reaching a special type of listener whose symphonic appetite was not satisfied by the larger stations. So he decided to expand, took on a partner, acquired larger, high-fidelity broadcasting facilities, renamed his station WQXR...
...burn, Freuchen decided to send him to Greenland for good. But although Mequsaq could not learn white men's ways, neither could he learn to be happy away from his father, who knew, each time they parted, that Mequsaq, for all his poker-faced Eskimo reticence, suffered the special heartbreak of an orphan and an exile...