Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baseball diamond, its infield covered with gravel and stone dust, is not Koehan's major concern...
Take a can of Endust and a dry mop and dust off Briggs Cage...
...midday, Wheat Farmer Clyde Eveleigh stared out his front window near Ulysses, Kans. His yard light, which turns on automatically when the sky darkens, glowed dimly through clouds of gritty dust. "I'm guessing that we got wiped out today," he reported, "but I'm not about to go out into the fields to find out-the air is so black I might get lost." In eastern Colorado, too, gusts of wind up to 90 m.p.h. scooped up the drought-dry topsoil, hurling some five tons of the precious dirt off each acre of land during...
...Dangers. In a grimy arc, from Nebraska through the plains of Kansas and Colorado, on into the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas, scenes right out of The Grapes of Wrath suddenly materialized in the swirl of dust billowing up to 12,000 feet. The grit sifted into houses, causing eyes to burn and coating tongues. As visibility neared zero, motorists pulled to sides of roads, and highways were ordered closed. At week's end the dust had blown over the southeastern states, turning the sky a milky yellow. To many worried Westerners, the worst dust storm in some...
Stumping Scientists. In southwestern Minnesota, in the town of Ivanhoe, Ray Heard, a beef and dairy farmer, figures that he has lost $30,000 in the past three years and is approaching bankruptcy. This year, as his grazing land turned to dust, he spent $10,000 on hay. "We're practically giving away cattle, the prices are so low," he says. "I'm hanging on by my toenails." In just the past year, Minnesota has lost 3,000 of its 34,000 dairy farmers because of soaring feed costs and dry pastures. In South Dakota...