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The American Desert Sir: Congratulations on your excellent July 25 spread of pictures and story on the Pacific Southwest . . . Never was a truer word written than your assertion that ";water has always been the limiting factor to the desert's growth" . . . When federal western reclamation was authorized in 1902...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

Peking was already more than 2,000 years old when one of its invading conquerors decided to make it a place of splendor. The Mongol Emperor Kublai, grandson of Genghis Khan, ordered the building of Green Mount, a hill that was dotted with evergreens brought from far and wide by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: INSIDE RED CHINA'S CAPITAL | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Inside the four-mile square of Tartar City rose the pavilion-studded Imperial City, and, inside that, the Forbidden City. Yung Lo scooped out portions of the Imperial City to make the Pool of Great Fertilizing Spume, used the excavated earth to build Coal Hill as a protection for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: INSIDE RED CHINA'S CAPITAL | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Luxury. "I would not put it beyond them to air-condition the roads in the Imperial Valley, where they have already gone so far as to air-condition toilets."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Shopper's Report | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

No Place But Here. Water has always been the limiting factor to the desert's growth. There are few places on the desert where a man, for a price, cannot sink a well and bring up water. But the price is sometimes prohibitive, and the water table is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Desert,1955: A new way of life in the U.S. | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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