Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado's Allott, Maryland's Beall, Connecticut's Bush, Kansas' Carlson, New Jersey's Smith, New Hampshire's Cotton, Pennsylvania's Duff, New York's Ives, California's Kuchel, Maine's Payne, Massachusetts' Saltonstall...
...Drought. But by and large, a farmer's prosperity depends on where he lives, and how good a farmer he is. In the drought-parched wheat-producing plains of eastern Colorado and western Kansas, where the moisture level has reached an alltime low, farm income has fallen as much as 75%-Some small farmers have quit and are moving to the cities or the oilfields. Big operators survived by cutting corners: laying off help, patching up equipment, postponing purchases...
...their troubles, last week the Federal Crop Insurance Corp., which has gone $6,000,000 into the red insuring wheat against drought, announced that it was canceling next year's crop insurance in nine dried-out Colorado. Texas and New Mexico counties, covering 3,751 policyholders. Said Farmer George Pittman of Lamar, Colo., who saw his 642 acres of winter wheat blow away this year: "That crop insurance saved me. It was the only security I had in getting a loan. Now the bank has turned me down. I've got nothing...
...When a blow like this hits," said a county agent in southeast Colorado, "the whole sky turns brown like the smoke from a great prairie fire. Everything is horizontal, and the dust is everywhere like scorched flour. The cattle are bunched with their tails to the winds. Sometimes it gets so bad that mud balls form on the animals' noses and eyes, and birds and animals are choked to death. I've seen hawks downed by the dusters. The lights go on at noon, and the wind whips out grain and grass and fences, and the tumbleweeds...
Five years of drought have dried up some 250,000 square miles centering on the Texas-Oklahoma panhandles and stretching into Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. In places the underground water table has dropped below the disastrous levels of the 1930s. The drought has left more than 18 million acres "in condition to blow"; since November alone, dust storms have damaged 7,000,000 acres, and this week another heavy duster blew up. In Colorado 26 counties have already been classified disaster areas...