Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Funnyman Flip Wilson might just be the biggest thing to hit Boley, Okla. (pop. 500) since the dust storms of the 1930s. When the town adopted the TV comedian as its honorary police chief last February, Wilson promised to contribute $10,000 for a new swimming pool. Last week he came to deliver. "We've got a $5,000 check for a police car," proclaimed Wilson during festivities for the town's 70th anniversary, "and now we're going to start working on $22,000 for a fire truck." Great, but what about the pool? "He wanted...
Through clouds of stampeded dust, lashurged...
Both problems--space and climate control--come down to a question of money, and raising that money will be Slive's highest priority. The planned installation of a system to filter dust and pollutants out of the air and control the relative humidity inside the Fogg will necessitate closing a third of the building at a time for three-month stretches...
...first stop for America's new refugees is a 500-acre wasteland on Guam's Orote Point, the site of an abandoned Japanese airbase from World War II. The mammoth refugee complex bulged with 40,000 people. The air is constantly filled with red dust kicked up by the bulldozers grinding away at the remaining tree stumps and brambles. At night, strands of arc lights create hard patches of brightness among the heavy-canvas tents...
...bill temporarily suspending the President's authority to post the increases. Ford vetoed the bill, but struck a compromise: he would defer adding the second dollar until May 1. As that deadline approached last week, it was clear that if the President boosted the tariff, Congress would dust off the vetoed legislation and try to override him. If nothing else the President's delay gives both sides a little more time to work out some compromise...