Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would not create hazardous fallout or do any kind of permanent damage seemed to have allayed most fears. Most of the scientists who had opposed the test on the ground that it might do long-lasting damage to the earth's upper atmosphere and the Van Allen radiation belt were reserving judgment. Scientists in New Zealand, the country most affected by the blast, treated it as an interesting scientific experiment-and a pleasure to observe...
Still another prong would consist of measures to divert land from production of crops now in oversupply-a temporary five-year "soil bank," plus a special plan for transforming wheatlands on the arid western fringes of the wheat belt into grasslands for grazing cattle...
...slave to Meredith Willson's Broadway hit musical. Indeed, at one point a theater spotlight is used to light up the hero and his girl, with the rest of the screen in darkness. The hero is Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a 1912 conman in the corn-belt town of River City, Iowa. Preston's tactic is to whip up enthusiasm in small towns for starting a brass band, sucker parents into buying the instruments and uniforms, and then skip out without teaching the young Sousaphiles a note. Preston is a musical illiterate but a one-man school...
...allotments are valuable, since without them farmers are subject to unprofitably stiff penalties for planting and marketing-but their sale is distinctly illegal. Smarting at the new scandal. Freeman turned the case over to the FBI. The big question: Will the rice scandal spread across the Texas coastal rice belt...
...efforts. A U.S. Treasury Department spokesman figured that Canadian dependence on its own efforts would cost the U.S. $350 million in trade and tourists if it lasted a year, perhaps only one-third that much if the measures are short-term as promised. Last week, as Canada began its belt-tightening, the Canadian 92½? dollar showed its greatest strength in six weeks...