Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...section by section as the teams painstakingly made their way to the victims. The day before the blast, the mine had been cited for three violations of federal ventilation laws-and only two of the violations had been corrected. But 11 of 36 sprinklers used to dampen inflammable coal dust were not operating. There is no indication, however, that this was in any way connected with the explosion. Nor do officials know how the fatal quantity of methane gathered in the passageway-or what ignited...
...minutes, the Classics built up a 20-point plurality, 57-37, that not even the Celtics could overcome. Well, the granite staters certainly had bit the dust...
...many farmers, John Steinbeck's description of the Dust Bowl is as tragically apt today as it was in the 1930s. The drought and winds that four decades ago turned large parts of the U.S. into an agricultural disaster area have returned to some areas of the Great Plains, parching crops and whipping topsoil into sun-darkening clouds. In the 1930s the victims of the drought-the impoverished Okies memorialized in Steinbeck's novel-were lured westward by California's verdant fruit groves. But this time California is suffering from its most severe drought since...
...Great Plains have received so little rain that they are actually drier than at the onset of the great drought of '34. Starved for moisture, the rich topsoil in hard-hit areas of the Great Plains is turning into a fine brown silt. Winds hurl the dust particles against the still-growing sprouts, until they lose their color...
...Oklahoma until by 1935 most of the Middle West was afflicted. Mercifully, an onset of rain in Iowa and other parts of the Midwest has alleviated that worry. Still, in areas already seriously stricken by drought, it will take several years of normal rainfall and intensive soil husbandry before Dust Bowl conditions are overcome...