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Word: aermotor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1982-1982
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...range is filled with a sweet silence; it is broken only by a thin whistle of wind in mesquite and the oddly haunting sound, a crumpling tinny flex of metal, that an Aermotor windmill vane makes randomly in the tremendous spaces. But out in the middle of nowhere the rancher will come upon an oil "location" that he has leased to drillers. The work is deafening, unclean and, of course, extremely profitable. Oilworkers seem weirdly surly and uncommunicative for this part of the country, like punk rockers, Ahab's harpooners, aliens. The chemical "slush" from the hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Texas: The Great Mesquite Wars | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

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