Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...McCarthy Jr., former branch manager of Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth, took $500,000 out of the treasuries of the Teamster organizations in Detroit and deposited the money in a non-interest-bearing account in an Orlando, Fla. bank. The bank in turn lent money to Sun Valley, Inc.-a land development company of which Henry Lower is president. The company then bought up Florida lots at about $18 apiece, and with Hoffa's help began promoting the land as a haven for retired and aging Teamsters-selling the lots at prices ranging from...
...mention Deep Water Bay or Pokfuluam or Mount Kellett or Happy Valley, where the graves of honorable friends watch over race track, not to write of Tai Po or Sha Tin or Fan Ling, the golfers' paradise, is a crying shame...
...play is framed by the narration of a story teller to two groups of collective farmers who are trying to decide who will have possession of a valley stream, its former owners, the goatherds, or those who now need it, the planters. He tells of a revolution in which the governor of a Caucasian city is overthrown and his wife forced to abandon their child. Grusha, a simple peasant girl, rescues him, carries him to the distant home of her brother, pursued all the way by Ironshirts, and eventually marries a dying man so that the child will...
...harm him. The moral of the tale is that the child and the stream must go to those who use them best. Mr. Hancock's cutting of everything dealing with the collective farm is silly politically and dramatically, for the last three lines of the play, "And the valley to the waterers, that it bring forth fruit," becomes poetically lewd in a way Brecht wouldn't have appreciated...
...wildlife cranks doubt that progress is served in the interests of flood control, irrigation, electrification and the outboard motor industry. Author John Graves is no crank, and from the evidence of his book, he is something of a fatalist. When he heard that a section of the Brazos River valley in the west Texas scrub country, where he grew up, was soon to be drowned by five dams, Graves did not tilt at turbines but said farewell...