Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm failed in the Depression, and when Chavez was ten, the family packed everything it owned into a decrepit automobile and headed across the Colorado River into California. In Oxnard, Chavez's father found work threshing lima beans; when all the beans were harvested, the family took off, looking for other jobs and often turning up just a few days after a crop...
Closing the Sluices. Over the years, the pollution has taken an ecological as well as esthetic toll. The Rhine salmon, once a river staple, has long since disappeared from the murky waters, as has the sturgeon. The hardy varieties of fish that remain-bream, carp, perch and pike-cannot be sold because the river's high phenol content makes them smell and taste foul. Last week even the survivors were imperiled. Millions of dead fish floated to the surface, victims of the worst case of pollution in the river's history...
...first public warning to the Dutch came from a German police boat at the tiny border town of Lobith, where the Rhine flows from West Germany into The Netherlands. "The river is poisoned!" a German policeman shouted to a Dutch police launch. "Nobody knows what...
...Dutch, dependent on the Rhine for nearly half their drinking water, closed off the sluices that fed the river into purification plants. As rumors swept The Netherlands that nerve gas had contaminated the Rhine, police warned farmers to evacuate their cattle from riverside meadows. Some intrepid souls who still take dips in the rancid waters were dragged from the river. Within hours, tons of dead fish began drifting, belly up, across the border...
...furious. Five days before they were warned, dead fish, ducks and rats had been observed below the German town of Bingen. Why had the Germans failed to sound the alarm sooner? The North Rhine-Westphalian state government explained that a warning was issued to all German waterworks along the river. But then along came the weekend, and officials simply took off without passing the word...