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...Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle, where the survey began, Dr. Tugwell reassured a gathering of farm experts by declaring: "All this talk about depopulating the Great Plains is foolish. We don't want to depopulate the country. We want to fortify it to withstand drought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Biography of a Blister | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...Amarillo is a cow, oil & gas town put on the map by the uncomplimentary comments of Gene Howe, editor of its Globe-News, on Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mary Garden. Seven miles away lies a Federal gas processing plant which produces most of the world's helium. Waco makes its living from cotton, has a Cotton Palace, an annual Cotton Festival and Baylor University. "Dr. Pepper," the South's famed soft drink, originated in Waco and the late Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan was born on a nearby potato ranch. San Angelo makes its living from sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Superlative Century | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...Santa Fe's new track will run in miles between Boise City, Okla. and Las Animas, Colo. At an estimated cost of $3,750,000, it will complete a 232-mile line between Las Animas and Amarillo, Tex. which was originally approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1930 and completed as far as Boise City- 121 miles-in 1931. Thus after five years the Santa Fe will soon succeed in connecting Denver with western Texas by a direct route saving as much as 226 miles on traffic north & south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Track | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...Line Co. This latter company was the major operating unit for Frank P. Parish's famed Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co., which in 1930 thousands of Market speculators referred to as Mo-Kan, at first with affection, later with despair. Promoter Parish planned to pipe natural gas from Amarillo, Tex. to Indianapolis, a distance of some 1,250 miles. Since pipe lines cost! anywhere from $22,000 to $40,000 a mile, Mr. Parish had on his hands a most ambitious undertaking. Running out of funds before his line was completed, he sold a controlling interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Triumph in Gas | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...spreading trachoma (TIME, Dec. 30), Japan's No. 1 Christian speedily found a suitable attendant. On furlough from the American Baptist Mission in Swatow, Kwangtung, China was Dr. Velva Violet Brown, .a 44-year-old surgeon. Dr. Kagawa and his portly, solicitous companion chartered a plane for Amarillo, Tex. In the following seven days they visited Lubbock. Tex., Norman, Okla., Oklahoma City, Springfield, Mo., Memphis, Indianapolis. Getting used to his routine of eyewash and antiseptics, Dr. Brown said: "No special attention is necessary for Dr. Kagawa. I see that he has everything he needs and I am with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kagawa's Doctor | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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