Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this will take time (about six years) and money ($200,000,000). But Orive de Alba knows that Papaloapan can do much for Mexico. To invite industry to the valley, more power than all Mexico now produces will flow from the four dams. Reclaimed swamps, flood lands and arid areas soon to be irrigated will be opened to farmers. The region's present population of 170,000 poor bush-grubbers, Engineer de Alba hopes, will grow to more than 600,000 when his work is done...
...reported after a coast-to-coast tour that in good looks "suburban girls lead city girls," and have "better developed breasts, more streamlined figures ... a lasting, healthy bloom to their skin. . . ." Sweden's 88-year-old King Gustaf moved down to the French Riviera for the sun & fun. Arid in Britain's House of Lords, Christopher Maude Chavasse, one-legged Lord Bishop of Rochester, plugged for a ban on liquor in workers' restaurants on the ground that young couples "do not want their courting in public houses ; they want the ordinary tea shop." Lord Latham retorted that...
Arizona Roots. When the call to the ambassadorship came last week, Lew Douglas was in Phoenix which he still calls home. His family roots are deep in Arizona's arid soil. His grandfather left Scotland and a career as a scholar to go prospecting, and hit the jackpot with the fabulous Copper Queen mine at Bisbee. His father, "Rawhide Jim" Douglas, discovered the U.V.X. mine...
...Arid if they don't, guessed Columnist Brown, Bevin might just quit...
...denied that one: ". . . It was stupid. I've been kicking myself all over the place." The Duchess was asked to describe the basis on which she selected jewels to match her costumes. She said: "A fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears gold arid with evening clothes one wears platinum." Among the missing was her famous diamond stork-shaped clip; a pair of diamond and sapphire earrings; a 58.2 carat aquamarine ring...