Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milky Way galaxy to which our own sun belongs, they see practically nothing. It is comparatively near, but dark, cosmic clouds frustrate their peering telescopes, and it is estimated that less than 1/1,000 of the ordinary blue photographic light from the galaxy center gets through the obscuring interstellar dust...
...children sweated away last week to convert an isolated Colorado canyon into an atomic foxhole. They hurried to finish roads, houses, power plant, workshop and administration building before atom bombs rained down to wipe out civilization. Dr. Doreal had said it would be "soon, probably sooner." When the radioactive dust had settled at last, they-the Brotherhood of the White Temple-would emerge from their hideout, help set civilization going again...
...Alcan tour, General Worthington said: "We are not pointing the finger at any nation . . . but we have to consider if any enemy exists, just where he would come and why."* At week's end, as the caravan rolled north in trucks and autos, the only enemies encountered were dust and mosquitoes...
...rose another $1.60. First day this week, the torrent turned into a deluge. Trucks loaded with hogs and steers were lined up 30 blocks waiting for the yards to open. By sundown the number of steers received was approximately 40,000, just a cut or two under the famous Dust Bowl liquidations...
...Locusts. They brought wives and children and grandmothers with them. In Cleveland's western outskirts, on a treeless sunbaked flat of weeds and dust, 20,000 of them made a tidy camp. There they parked their trailers, pitched tents, built their own privies and slept like Spartans on mats of straw...