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Stagnant air hung heavy and ominous over the parched plains last week. Then a cold front hit and the year's worst duster began to blow. Winds up to 70 m.p.h. whipped across 120,000 square miles of the Southwest dust bowl, and the earth boiled into black clouds 20,000 feet high in the sky. The dust was so thick that dawn came invisibly; when rain began to fall, tiny mud balls pelted the town of Guymon, Okla. Schools closed, stores shut down, and thousands of farm families listened tensely at their radios as their lands and livelihoods...
...wind even picked up small stones. "Duster?" croaked a dry-throated farm wife. "This one throwed rocks at us." One state farm official reported: "I've lived in the so-called dust bowl since 1907, and I've never seen it in the condition it is in now." Explained Texas Conservationist Henry N. Smith: "It isn't so much what this one storm did-it's that this one came on top of five years of trouble...
...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...
...society, he found a fine headquarters site near Ossining, N.Y., but there was some prejudice in those parts against Catholic organizations. Mary Rogers suddenly became a wealthy young Bostonian looking for a country place. Her goggled chauffeur accompanied her to the negotiations with hardly a word; beneath his linen duster was a clerical collar. After the transaction was completed, she transferred the deed to Chauffeur Walsh in consideration of $1. Mary Rogers, and five other women who had come to help the Maryknoll Fathers,* began by calling themselves "Teresians" because of their devotion to St. Teresa. By 1920 they were...
...With a Message. In reply, Billy offered the spiritual knife of his preaching and the high-pressure knuckle-duster of U.S.-style evangelism. Five thousand special buses and 83 special trams stood by.Graham's advance guard placarded all Scotland with his picture. But the Scots needed little urging; they flocked to hear him. Said the Rev. A. Nevile Davidson, Minister of Glasgow: "God has sent a man with a message at the right moment...