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...guaranteed Mexico 1,500,000 acre-feet of water each year. Mexico built a dam, dug irrigation canals and before long brought the once-desolate Mexicali region to life. But in 1961 the water became too salty to drink, and cotton died in the fields. Under the new Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project, U.S. farmers were using irrigation water to leach out excess salt from their desert soil-and were flushing the residue back into the Colorado, whose salt content rose alarmingly from 800 parts per million to more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: A Pinch of Salt | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

Under consideration are several more expensive ways out, including a 65-mile canal to divert Wellton-Mohawk's salty waters to the Gulf of California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: A Pinch of Salt | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...Allegheny, Bonanza, Central, Frontier, Lake Central, Mohawk, North Central, Ozark, Pacific, Piedmont, Southern, Trans-Texas and West Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Take-Off of the Feeders | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

Swagger & Treachery. From the turmoil rose truly remarkable men, who swagger through Van Every's pages. Joseph Brant was a sophisticated Mohawk chieftain, who was born in a wigwam but was equally at home in London society. He was perhaps the only Indian leader who fully understood the fatal consequences of Indian disunity. Alexander McGillivray, the son of a Scottish trader and an Indian beauty, became paramount leader of the Creek nation and a diplomatist of genius, who maintained his people's independence long after the other tribes had surrendered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Touch of a Feather | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...Place in Line. American, Braniff and Mohawk airlines recently ordered a total of 31 British Aircraft Corp. BAC One-Eleven short-range jet transports worth $83.7 million. At the other end of the jet spectrum, among the big long distance models, Continental Air Lines fortnight ago signed up for three Concorde Mach 2.2 supersonic jet trans ports being built by a British-French consortium for delivery beginning in 1970. Pan Am has already ordered six Concordes - and TWA seems certain to follow. The orders are a form of insurance by the U.S. airlines to ensure them a place in line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: An Uneasy Crown | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

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