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...Killed, 194 (139 Republicans, 55 Dem ocrats) to 179 (126 Republicans. 53 Dem ocrats), the Administration-sponsored, Senate-approved $156 million Frying Pan-Arkansas project designed to bring Frying Pan Creek water to drought-stricken southeastern Colorado (in the Arkansas River valley) by tunnel through the Con tinental Divide...
...joyless marriage to a decent local grocer. She tends store, she raises her nephews, she keeps house and plays bridge when she has to. But her neighbors bore her, the birth of a daughter fails to enrich her unsmiling nature, and neither good times nor bad, drought nor plenty seem to offer any real excuse for living. Author Siebel kills off her characters with adding-machine indifference. Mother goes. Then the favorite nephew dies in World War II. Finally, Ella herself methodically swallows a bottle of sleeping pills, rinses her water glass, and lies down to die in a final...
...Northern Territory, the term is a wry joke. Humpty Doo lies in a waste of desert and jungle twice the size of Texas-the territorial "Outback" below Darwin. It is a land of crocodiles and kangaroos, of torrential, 60-in. rain fall half the year and bone-dry drought the rest. Last week Humpty Doo held promise of living up to its name. After three years of study, a group of U.S. businessmen headed by Los Angeles Industrialist Allen Chase had formed Territory Rice Ltd., planned to spend at least $90 million turning the Outback into one of the world...
What Benson did not say was that in Iowa, as in other drought-ridden states where a man makes a decision with an eye on the weather and a hand on his pocketbook, thousands of canny farmers are treasuring options that will permit them to withdraw their land from the soil bank by July 20 if they change their minds. Reason: if enough rain falls before that date, many will go ahead with their crops in anticipation of a higher per-acre income than the soil bank would pay (an average of $44 an acre) if the crops were plowed...
...before costs: $36), $35 per acre for corn ($54), $49 per acre for cotton ($104) and $57 per acre for rice ($113). At those rates the farmer with especially promising crop prospects would probably stay out of the program this year, but the farmer afflicted by adverse conditions, e.g., drought, insect infestation, would be likely to plow under his crops. In that sense the Benson program was tooled to help the farmer who needed it most...