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...without private-enterprise financing. Dilworth bounced civic heads together until everyone was cooperating on his new highways and skyways, parks and playgrounds, office buildings and housing projects. His energy created a downtown area that today is widely regarded as a model of urban sprightliness, rather than a blot of blight...
...heart of America where all life seemed to be in harmony with its surroundings."It had fertile farms, prosperous farmers, birds in the trees, fish in the streams, and flowers blooming gaily along the roadsides. Then a white powder fell from the sky like snow, and a fearful blight crept over the land. Cattle and sheep sickened; hens could not hatch their eggs. Strange illnesses appeared among the people; children were stricken at play and died within a few hours. The birds sang no more, the fish in the streams died, and the roadsides were lined with browned vegetation...
...year study proved that cotton yields would be cut by 40%. Production of many kinds of fruit and vegetables would be impossible; unsprayed apple trees, for instance, no longer yield fruit that is sound enough to be marketed.*Potato fields swept by the Colorado beetle or late blight (the fungus that caused the great Irish potato famine of 1846) yield hardly any crop...
...medical clinic to serve Barsha and other villages (the building is still empty for lack of a technical staff). A circuit-riding doctor pays a once-a-week call at Barsha, and Cairo surprised the villagers last year by passing out free insecticides to combat the cotton-worm blight and, when this failed, paid a $10-per-acre subsidy to those who suffered complete loss. Under Egypt's land reform program, only three Barsha families have received five acres each. Throughout Egypt, 1,650,000 acres so far have been seized from the big landlords by the government...
...evening begins with Evans delivering the Prologue from Henry V. But when Shakespeare wrote, "Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts," he had no idea of the imperfections that would blight this production. And even Coleridge himself would have to admit that there are limits to the "willing suspension of disbelief...