Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apprehensions. Last week the state was shaking from the effects of the biggest political land mine which had blown up in years; the jury had indicted State Corporation Commission Chairman Dan Sedillo, one of the biggest shots in New Mexico's Democratic hierarchy. The charge: Sedillo had fed Cricket Coogler drinks and had "possessed her for evil purposes...
...Spanish conquistadores had always believed that somewhere in northeastern Peru lay the land of the Indian king, El Dorado, a man so fabulously rich that he daily powdered himself from head to foot with gold dust. Legend also held that the land of El Dorado lay close to Angayza and that the mountain, which rises where the spurs of the eastern Andes reach the Amazonian jungle, was solid gold. In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Peru's conqueror, led several thousand men on a fruitless hunt for El Dorado...
Another AEC program is the development of better means of detecting dangerous radiation before it has done any harm. One AEC team is observing Bikini Atoll, where fish, mollusks and even land plants are still concentrating radioactive substances from the A-bombs that exploded there...
...been a heavy onion grower. When that market slumped, Gehring bought 350 brush-covered acres at $60 an acre (now worth upwards of $375), turned the fields to potatoes, and gradually added to his holdings. "Potatoes," explains Gehring, "meant rotation. To get steady potato crops, I reached for more land. For a good rotation crop, I chose mint. Mint and potatoes meant irrigation and controlling more land to protect our water rights. So this thing just grew and grew...
...Holy Land of Ireland...