Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area and in many peripheral regions the water table has dropped alarmingly. Thousands of wells have run dry. In Missouri as in many a nearby state water is being hauled in trucks, tank cars and barrels from more fortunate spots. The drought has even affected cities. Some residents of Oklahoma City are drilling wells in their yards as insurance against shortage, and many houses in St. Louis and Kansas City are settling and cracking in the ash-dry earth...
...packed with dirt. At Field, N. Mex. (pop. 25), a dust storm halted the funeral of 73-year-old Mrs. Alice Towner, who had walked toward her mailbox in a previous storm, been swallowed by the blinding dust, wandered lost and helpless, and finally died in a nearby pasture. Oklahoma City's Engineer W. W. Baker estimated that one storm last week deposited 185,000 tons of dust on the city, enough to fill its 6,000-seat municipal auditorium to the rafters...
...announcing yesterday's elections, Coach Bob Pickett said that no Crimson wrestler will be at the NCAA championships held over this weekend at the University of Oklahoma, due to the excessive travelling time involved...
...safely Democratic Oklahoma, wisecracking U.S. Senator Robert Kerr, a millionaire oilman who fancied himself as a contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1952, will have to fight to hold his Senate seat. His opponent in the Democratic primary: former Governor Roy Turner, millionaire oil & cattleman, who will have the quiet support of Kerr's Democratic colleague in the Senate, Mike Monroney...
...farmers in the old Kansas-Nebraska-Oklahoma-Colorado dust bowl were worrying about a lack of wheat, not a surplus. In the last fortnight, storms have again covered farms in the drought-stricken bowl with blankets of dust. Colorado's Republican Governor Dan Thornton pointed out that there would be no dust bowl if good grazing lands, anchored by tough, tangled grass roots, had not been plowed up to plant wheat under the incentive of Government-supported high prices. Said he: "High prices guaranteed for wheat have ... led to plowing up . . . land which never should have been cultivated...