Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went from Black Sunday to White Wednesday," crowed an Agriculture Department official in Washington last week. Suddenly whitened were Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's prospects of hanging on until the end of the Eisenhower Administration despite huge crop surpluses and massive farm-program spending...
...family heads went to the valley from Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas some 20 years ago as migrant farm workers, pinched their dollars, and with earnest pride bought their own land on a sandy alkali flat and called it home. The neighboring town and country were nourished by huge water projects and irrigation systems. Other valley towns thrived, but Teviston never amounted to much because it had no water supply of its own. To get their water, Teviston people had to go to nearby Pixley or Earlimart and haul it back in battered milk cans and oil drums. They measured their...
...officer caste, drawn traditionally from the middle class and poorer gentility, splurges fortunes on such status symbols as Caracas' $10 million officers' club, the marble-and-gilt Circulo de las Fuerzas Armadas. Early retirement is a huge drain on treasuries. Argentina has 20,000 retired officers v. 10,000 on active duty; Brazil's out-to-pasture list includes 1,500 generals and 38 field marshals...
Site and architect came together by sheer chance. Seven years ago, rotund, ebullient Nat Owings, 56, a senior partner of the huge architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was visiting San, Francisco for the express purpose of courting a handsome divorcee, Margaret Wentworth. One fine fall day they set out on a picnic in the precipitous Big Sur country south of Carmel. Scrambling along the cliffs, they came upon a finger of land that thrust out into the Pacific in lonely grandeur. To the south, they could see a 40-mile sweep of coastline. Six hundred feet below, sea lions...
...Snow Train. The New York Central Railroad developed a snow blower that harnesses the exhaust of a B-36 jet bomber engine to blast its freight-yard tracks and switches free of snow. Mounted on a modified caboose with a huge nozzle, the engine can blow away snow...