Word: aridity
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Bisaccia stands high amid the crags and chestnut trees of the Southern Apennines, 60 miles to the east of Naples. It is a small town of some 7,000 souls, and the land is poor and arid. So it has become the custom for many Bisaccesi to move elsewhere to earn their living: to Naples and to Rome, to Mexico and Brazil, and to the United States, where some 200 emigrants made their new homes in Richmond...
...moon. The Federal Government owns 87% of the whole place, rocks, rattlesnakes, Gila monsters and all, and its total population comes to 167,000 souls, only a few more than Bridgeport, Conn. It has only three industries-ranching, mining and the care and feeding of tourists. But arid Nevada has bloomed like a garden for Norman Biltz...
...Board of Geographic Names calls it "Meteor Crater" Airliners fly over it to show it to passengers, and the tourists it draws nourish a woebegone part of arid Arizona...
...into tankers just as Spindletop and the Auto Age gave the U.S. oil industry its biggest boost. He became a tanker captain for _ the fledgling Texas Co., later built up its tanker fleet and ran Texaco's overseas sales. He became chairman of the board in 1935 arid made deals all over the world to increase Texaco's own oil production...
...Adults who drive less than 7,500 miles a year will get a 20% rate cut; parents who keep their youngsters' part-time driving down to 25% of the yearly mileage will get a 9% cut. On the other hand, young drivers who take out their own policies arid have no parental supervision will get a 30% hike in rates...