Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Land & Water. The valley of the Snake has become one of Idaho's richest farm areas; along a 200-mile stretch of the river, business is brisk, and crops (beets, potatoes, alfalfa, produce) grow green. Water made the difference. Teddy Roosevelt's 1902 Reclamation Act brought the water; since then, the U.S. Reclamation Bureau has built a $25 million complex of dams and canals (repayable from water and power revenue) to irrigate a million acres. Another homesteading project developed when, in 1947, a well digger struck a great underground river...
Died. Lynn Riggs. 54. Broadway folk playwright (Green Grow the Lilacs, 1931, the source of Rodgers & Hammerstein's fabulously successful Oklahoma!) after a brief illness; in Manhattan...
...jungle temple of Angkor Wat to posterity. But Cambodia is now the smallest (about the size of Missouri) of the three Associated States. The French established their protectorate in 1863, but decided to leave the easygoing Cambodians pretty much on their own, to trade contentedly in pepper and corn, grow rice and worship Buddha in the shade. When the Communist guerrillas arose in 1952, plump young King Norodom Sihanouk forswore his love songs, his saxophone, his personal troupe of 30 dancing girls and led his 12,000-man army and his war elephants against the Reds. In 1953, King Norodom...
...cities of offshore oil grow out into the Gulf, they will tend to lose social contact with the distant shore. This is a serious morale problem, and the oil com panies are worried about it. One answer might be airplane or helicopter service to fly the men to their jobs; already some of the rigs have heliports on them...
Dick Riss has an unlimited faith in the future of trucking, because the population of the U.S. is increasing by 7,000 every day, and railroads are not expanding to meet the growing needs. Says he: "We've just begun to grow...