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Word: riverless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...development plan is not yet finished. North of the area fed by the Alvaro Obregón Dam stretches 300 miles of riverless desert. Beneath the parched earth lies a supply of fresh underground water. Engineers are already at work, drilling experimental wells, and surveying. It will not be long, they say, before the whole coast line from the U.S. border to Culiacán. in Sinaloa state, will be one big garden. The project can hardly help paying. Last year the crops grown in the Yaqui valley were worth more than the construction cost of the dam and irrigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Garden on the Gulf | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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