Word: gila
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dalhart, Tex. the words Dust Bowl are fighting words. The Dalhart Texan will pay $50 for information identifying the human Gila monster who coined the term Dust Bowl. "Maybe we did have some wrong farming methods," says Editor Albert Law, "and maybe we did have some dust storms. But we're really getting back to normal. We've got food crops that look like forests...
Flood. The biggest flood in the memory of eastern Arizona's old settlers poured down the Gila (pronounced hee-la) River. Ignoring midnight flood warnings, 100 families of the farm village of Duncan (pop. 887) saw their adobe houses crumble in the swirling brown waters next afternoon...
...assist in the operation of the new program Harvard has appointed Alfred D. Simpson, Assistant Commissioner of the New York State Department of Education, as Visiting Lecturer in Education; John F. Sly, Professor of Politics, Princeton University, as Consultant in Public Administration; and Ernest E. Fuller, President of Gila Junior College, Arizona, and former Associate Professor of Education, Brigham Young University, Utah, as Lecturer in Education. All the appointments are for the current academic year. Dr. Sly and Dr. Simpson are both widely known for research, writing, or administrative work in the field of educational finance; Dr. Fuller...