Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the red tarbooshes in Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel last week bobbed many other varieties of Arab headgear-flowing khafiya of desert men from Saudi Arabia and Yemen, top-heavy sedarah from Iraq, the occasional spiked helmet of a Trans-Jordan Arab Legionnaire. The delegates of the seven Arab League states were getting their heads together to discuss tactics of the Arab fight against Zionism...
...Arizona's grapefruit crop went to the canners, growers, as usual, dumped 50 tons of culls (undersized fruits) on the desert, to keep the price up. Local residents, as usual, promptly picked the dumping ground clean...
Peru's coast is a brown billowing desert,* broken here & there by tiny green valleys which poorly support half the country's population. The towering Andes effectively bar the transportation of foodstuffs from the fertile eastern region. Because of the chronic food shortage, the Ministry of Agriculture is the hottest seat in the Peruvian cabinet. In January, the Apristas gladly turned the post over to a chubby, genial landowner named Pedro Venture, later denounced him for failing to provide food for the people. Replied Venture: "I cannot offer you miracles...
...rubber water tank, personally flew off to sprinkle a fat cumulus cloud over the Andean foothills. Rain fell, but it was in an area where it often rains at this time of year. Next day, Pedro was in the air again, with dry ice, found a cloud over the desert. The dry-ice ejector got stuck...
...Venturo was spending almost as much time at Lima's airport as at the Agriculture Ministry. For his next try, Pedro was negotiating last week with a commercial airline for a larger plane which could carry water and dry ice, as well as photographers and newspapermen. Although the desert had not yet bloomed, Peruvians had faith in Rainmaker Venturo. Said one Limeño: "The public shouldn't get disappointed-remember Salvarsan is called '606' because the discoverer failed the first 605 times...