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Word: guymon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clean, brisk air, coming more in waves than gusts, buffets the winter wheat and corn that thrust above the occasional snows and seem to sway in time to the thumping of the irrigation pumps. Everywhere a new spirit of enthusiasm and industry is at work. It is felt in Guymon (pop. 6,000), a feed-lot and meatpacking center that is already siphoning business away from Kansas City. There are still trailers here; now they are filled not with migrants but with expectant property owners awaiting completion of their $60,000 houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Oklahoma 1970: The Dust Bowl of the '30s Revisited | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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