Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arizona last week, Phoenix Weatherman J. R. Jurwitz asked, "Why can't God give us some of that Missouri water?" Residents looked up at smoke-hazed skies and prayed for rain. Drought is now in its tenth year of creeping paralysis. Forest fires burned 26,450 Arizona acres in June and are roaring on. (New Mexico, Washington, Oregon and California also had drought-born forest fires.) "It's so dry, a hot breath could start a fire," said one ranger...
...Kansas-Missouri flood, 12 inches fell in 72 hours). Overplanting of cotton, overgrazing of cattle is depleting the ground water supply. Arizona's $300 million agricultural economy is in peril from the years of dryness, and some alarmed Arizonans fear a general exodus from the state if rain doesn't come...
...normal July, Kansas is as hot and dry as a wheat beard in the afternoon sun, with searing winds browning the stubble and curling the corn leaves. But this is no normal year. June was the wettest month in Kansas weather records (since 1886), and the rain continued into July. When torrential rains poured down last week, there was nothing for the water to do but run off the saturated soil. It ran with a fury never before seen in Kansas...
...response to requests: a one-armed paper hanger in action, a man fighting a bear, another wrestling an alligator, a boxer fighting a wrestler, a 600-lb. cowboy mounted on a luckless nag, a close-up of a lady swallowing swords, a swallower of goldfish, a Hopi Indian rain dance complete with rattlesnake, a scientist who showed (with the help of liquid air at 300° F. below zero) what the world might be like if the sun went out. For last week's show, one "Cannonball" Martin came out of retirement to be pounded before the cameras with...
...about. It was only the little British frigate Amethyst, 1,470 tons, and looking a bit shabby at that. But as she hove into view that August day of 1949, the din of sirens, fireworks and lusty British cheers was a considered tribute. In spite of the heavy rain, a squadron of Spitfires repeatedly swooped low in salute. Only as the Amethyst neared her Royal Navy berth did it become plain that she was a shelled cripple. No sooner was she tied up than her whole crew was relieved, to become the week-long guests of the Fleet Club. From...