Word: gila
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle-aged stoop, his brownish hair and open countenance. Back in 1935, as a result, he had little difficulty in selling acres & acres of steep, arid, brush-covered land in the barren hills above Los Angeles County's Placerita Canyon. The tract looked like a rest home for Gila monsters, but he got $1,950 an acre for it-just $1,900 more than he had paid...
...Niza had just returned from a four-month trip into the unexplored country to the north, in search of the legendary "Seven Cities of Antilia." What he said while his whiskers were coming off took his story dramatically out of the reach of expedition yarns. North of the Gila, he said, there was a fabulously wealthy country called Cibola, with "many walled cities." In Cibola, added the friar, even the women's belts were made of gold...
...Gila Game Protective Association Miami, Ariz...
Graduate students Herbert Dick, of Albuquerque, and C. Earle Smith, of St. Petersburg, Florida, went to New Mexico last summer with the Peabody Museum expedition to locate traces of early American man in the Upper Gila River area. They didn't find what they were looking for. But the two University scientists did stumble across something which has puzzled botanists for four centuries. They discovered the missing link in the corn kingdom-cobs and pieces of corn that are both the oldest and most primitive known to modern...
...Alone. In El Paso, transcontinental Hitchhiker Sam Henderson complained that few cars were giving him lifts-on account of both the gas shortage and the three live rattlers and three gila monsters included in his baggage...