Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas last week, farmers from Abilene to Topeka watched and worried as dust storms swirled across the state, silting down the new grass and dimming the sun. Across the U.S., politicians' eyes were watching an entirely different kind of Kansas storm, a political tempest, its gusts reaching all the way to Washington. In its center was Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 49, chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...radioactive cloud drifted eastward. A thick, dense column of dust reached into the sky behind it; below, a flat lake dust covered vast acres of desert. An hour passed before Army helicopters brought surprisingly chipper G.I.s from the trenches. Only two miles from Ground Zero, heat and light had passed over them as they crouched face down. The grey dust cloud they saw later, they were told was not dangerously radioactive. They had learned the lesson that atom bombs may spare careful soldiers who keep their distance and are well...
...dust cloud with its waning radio activity drifted harmlessly eastward ,but the ruins left behind at Yucca Flat impressed some observers more than others. For an area nearly a mile and a half long and almost as wide, the desert had been made dangerous with radioactivity. Hopefully, FCDA men announced that the bomb shelters in the cellar of House Two would have saved real inhabitants. Perhaps said dubious AEC officials, but it would be helpful to remember a few facts. The "Diagnostic Device" was less powerful than the primitive A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It probably packed the punch...
...airline, which had gone deep in the red, as CAB had warned it might, promptly raised a dust storm of protest. Pioneer s president, General Robert J. Smith announced that his line would have to fire its 450 employees, shut up shop within a week, and wires from aroused constituents poured in upon Texas Congressmen. In reply, CAB calmly indicated that here were several anxious airlines just waiting to take over Pioneer's routes
...week's end, Pioneer's dust storm had about blown itself out. It agreed to sell its 2-0-2s and buy back a fleet of DC-3s. Said President Smith: "There are some things you do because you want to, and other things you do because you have to. This comes in the latter category...