Word: ogallala
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...same land 40 years later, showing the lush checkerboard farms of America's breadbasket. Now, as if through a strange reversal in time, the second image threatens to fade into the first. For in another 40 years, the territory could backslide into dust and despair. The Ogallala Aquifer, the vast underground reservoir of water that transformed much of the Great Plains into one of the richest agricultural areas in the world, is being sucked...
...rapid growth in population and agriculture. Many wells have already run dry, forcing farmers to dig deeper and more expensive ones in an effort to reach the declining water levels. Some farmers in the Texas Panhandle, who have been drawing their water from the deep and bounteous Ogallala aquifer, calculate that their wells will run dry -drought or no drought-soon after the year...
Meanwhile, Benson personally bears the brunt of the bitterness. In Goodland and Logansport, Ind., Centerville, Mt. Pleasant and Shenandoah, Iowa, Nebraska City, Kearney, Ogallala and the Scottsbluff area of Nebraska, I met many who complained that the Secretary is a businessman, not a farmer. In strong Farm Union areas such as central and eastern Montana the Republican Party and policy are held to blame rather than Benson. Near Billings, I heard a recorded anti-G.O.P. speech by Senator Jim Murray in use as a radio commercial by a retail outlet as a sales pitch to farmers to buy portable...
Pavements were rippling like thin ice on a pond. Steel and stone buildings trembled in a portentous wind. The sky sizzled as though tons of bacon were frying in an apocalyptic pan. "Obviously, men," gasped the Professor, "the Katz-Alpha-Ogallala nebula is approaching the earth at terrific speed, just as I predicted. We have not a moment to lose." The atom-powered space ship was ready and waiting in Joe's Parkview Garage, and off they zoomed to safety on the planet Mars, where there are marvels enough to fill a year's issues of Flabbergasting Stories...