Word: flatlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...green beans, cotton, corn) near the Arkansas border. His father was a clerk in the general store, had five children, a pump and an outhouse; his grandfather had a big black mare named Kate. When he was seven and weighed just 55 Ibs., Ussery was clattering across the Oklahoma flatland, perched like a raisin on the bare back of Kate, and celebrating a win over other mounted kids by riding straight into a water hole, Kate...
...Sudan also produces nine-tenths of the world's supply of gum arabic, is going ahead on its own with a well-thought-out plan (originated by Britain after World War I) for developing the Gezira region, a 5,000,000-acre triangle of potentially rich flatland between the Blue and White Niles...
...expensive price-support system, said Fleming, has tended to keep cotton' production in the old, uneconomic mule-power farms of the Southeast, while retarding the natural shift of cotton growing to the low-cost, highly productive tractorized flatland farms of the South and of the irrigated Southwest and West. This keeps cotton prices so high that they provide an umbrella for foreign growers and a powerful incentive for consumers to shift to synthetic fibers. To cure the situation, Fleming advocated gradual reductions in U.S. cotton price-support levels, gradual removal of U.S. acreage controls, and gradual lifting...
French and his earth-moving Arabs built dikes across three wadies and ploughed L-shaped ridges in the flatland below the dikes. Then they waited for a cloudburst. On Oct. 30 the heavens opened in fine Biblical style. The water filled pools behind the dikes; it ran around their ends and was distributed over the flatland by the waiting ridges. In a week it was all absorbed, saturating the soil five-feet down. Beyond the dikes, the soil was as dry as ever...
...week wore on, the Chinese concentrated most of their fury on the fight for White Horse. The U.N. could not tolerate Chinese on the hill. It stands near the Chorwon corner of the old Communist "Iron Triangle"; from its crest, enemy observers could look across 15 miles of flatland into the heart of the Eighth Army's fortified positipns...