Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...UNITED STATES has also been hit by drought. In California, forests and canyons are tinder dry, and the fire danger is high. Reservoirs in Colorado are down. Drought-caused crop losses in Wisconsin are estimated at $400 million. Despite drought in some areas, however, American growers are expected to harvest more than 2 billion bu. of wheat...
...week that was certainly the case. A wildcat strike that started at a Cedar Coal Co. mine at Cabin Creek, W. Va., suddenly spread to include all of the state's 60,000 miners, plus 10,000 of their fellows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and Colorado. The miners had lost a total of $24 million in wages by week's end, and U.S. coal output had fallen by 6 million tons, worth $150 million...
...some of the final primaries. Democratic leaders in the region intend to campaign for him, but with some initial reservations. Said San Francisco Mayor George Moscone: "I'm going to work my ass off for him, but like everybody else, I don't know that much about him." Added Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, a liberal: "I tend to see blood, sweat and toil issues. I don't know what Carter thinks about them?if he does...
...Mary (1,500 meters) Stewart of Birmingham, has worked as hard as Anne and Mark. Home-town boosters raised money so that Ian, a factory employee at Birmingham Small Arms Co., and Mary, a clerk at the telephone office, could devote last month to high-altitude training at Colorado Springs, Colo...
...Entomologist William Bowers, of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, has isolated two substances from ageratum, a flowering plant, that interfere with an insect's production of juvenile hormones. When these antihormones are applied to immature cotton stainers and Mexican bean beetles, the insects grow into sterile adults. Colorado potato beetles treated with the chemical enter a hibernation from which they never emerge...