Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down from the snow-covered Rockies shrieked a chill gale one day last week, sucking up the powder-dry top soil of southeastern Colorado, tossing clods and pebbles across the cracked farm lands of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, blasting at the withering roots of range lands through central Texas, and blowing on out across the Gulf of Mexico. Across the prairie dust clouds boiled up as high as 20,000 feet in the worst duster since the black days...
Since most company communities exist to exploit oil or ore discoveries in remote areas, management generally invests lavishly in recreational facilities to attract and keep a high-caliber work force. In Colorado, Climax Molybdenum Co. has equipped the inaccessible Rockies settlement of Climax (where it operates the country's largest underground mine) with ski tows, a $31,700 youth center, a $106,000 recreation hall with bowling alleys, library, target range and gymnasium, a $128,000 skating rink and a TV booster to bring in programs from distant stations. Crown Zellerbach Corp., which runs three lumber company towns...
...Which often charged such exorbitant prices that Pennsylvania mineworkers in 1902 accused the coal operators of making profits "not only from mining coal but by mining miners." Many companies fired employees who shopped at independent stores. One of the worst company storekeepers: John D. Rockefeller Jr., whose Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. refused to give miners the right to shop where they chose until after a strike...
...Approved, in the Senate and the House, and sent to the White House, a conference-tooled bill to launch the $760 million Upper Colorado River development project...
...heaviest and costliest car, driven by the youngest driver, scored an upset victory in the 1956 Mobilgas Economy Run last week. At the end of the four-day, 1,468-mile course from Los Angeles to Colorado Springs, the trophy for the best gas mileage, won by lightweight Studebakers the last two years, went to a 4,580-lb., Chrysler Imperial Southampton (list: $5,618), piloted by 26-year-old Mel Alsbury Jr., of Hollywood...