Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roaring into a hell-hot 3.443 m.p.h.. it peaked into a graceful arc. seemed to hover uncertainly for a brief moment, then hurtled downward. Minutes later, its tail skids carved a high rooster tail of dust in the wind-slicked silt of Rogers Dry Lake in California. The plane stopped. "Well." said Test Pilot Joe Walker as he threw off the switches in the cockpit, "there's that one for today." In his X-15, Walker had just streaked to a new altitude record for manned planes: 246.700 ft.-46.7 miles above the earth...
...projected at a record 1.1 billion bu. of wheat, oats and barley, well over the decade's average annual production of 994 million bu. Farmers will probably increase planted acreage by 5% to 10%. But last year grain production was almost halved by the worst drought since the dust-bowl '30s and by a savage invasion of grasshoppers. Already this season, subsoil moisture is at "critically low levels," and as May planting begins, all depends on the arrival of what the farmers call "million-dollar rains" before June. "Hamilton sure has sold grain," a Saskatchewan farmer dourly observed...
...afternoon last week a truck braked to a halt in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The dust-covered tarpaulin was pulled away, and out of this one truck climbed 40-odd men, women and children - sunburned, dirty and ragged under wide-brimmed straw hats. At the end of a ten-day trek from Brazil's drought-afflicted Northeast, they shouldered their clothes bundles and started out for one of the 300 hillside favelas (slums) that are home for almost 1,000,000 cariocas. Said one new arrival, the father of four: "God will help us. We will...
More important catchcries than a dust-dry wrangle over the Liberals' parliamentary tactics should provide the stuff of the campaign. Probably not since Canada rejected reciprocity with the U.S. in the election of 1911 ("No truck nor trade with the Yankees!") have more fundamental uncertainties clouded Canada's future-including the vital questions raised by Britain's move to throw in its lot with Europe, a thorny debate over whether Canada should accept U.S. nuclear arms, and the continuing Canadian quandary over the pervasive commercial and cultural influence of the U.S. At home, a basic economic imbalance...
...happened. President Kennedy had slugged it out with steel and won. As the dust of battle lifted like smoke from an open-hearth furnace, the nation's press last week assigned itself the task of reckoning the casualties, the cost and, most importantly, the meaning of the fight...