Word: burro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Astrophysicist Abbot has been watching solar radiation with heliotrope devotion for 49 years. Twenty-five years ago he began to take daily recordings of solar heat. The Smithsonian set up delicate measuring instruments on three mountaintops in desert areas which averaged 300 cloudless days a year-Table Mountain, Calif., Burro Mountain, N. Mex. and Mt. Montezuma, Chile...
...politics, Lazaro Cardenas spread revolutionary fire & brimstone over the land. Cardenas distributed over 45,000,000 acres of land to the peasants. With the backing of labor and the Indian peasantry, which still worship him, he built up the first socialist state in the Western world. Stubborn as a burro, Cárdenas fought for Mexico's sovereign right to control its own subsoil treasures of ore and oil. He nearly broke Mexico doing it. When he bequeathed his errors and accomplishments to Avila Camacho, it was as if a volcano had subsided...
Last week ghostly Morenci was booming. Its main street, Burro Alley, had been widened, its houses repaired. The railroad has been converted from narrow to standard gauge; natural gas is tapped in 100 miles from the West Texas pipeline; there are new power and water systems. Besides opening the mine, Phelps Dodge built a 25,000-ton concentrator, a primary and secondary crusher, a larger smelter...
...Bisbee, Ariz., Officer A. S. Orton caught a small boy making off with assorted loot from a store. "Just what," asked he, "did you intend to do with this brassiere?" Said the boy: "Make a blindfold for my burro...