Word: sagebrush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horde of new people might have seemed dangerously like a liability last week-as incapable of self-support in time of future depression as the dust-bowlers of the '30s in times of drought. But the river-sliding placidly past its deep, black coulees, along leagues of empty sagebrush, through its lovely Cascades Canyon to the sea-seemed to hold the key to real prosperity...
...Niagara, spills over the top of Grand Coulee Dam. In time, this overflow will be channeled off to irrigate half a million acres of desert without sacrificing one kilowatt of electrical output. Only then will the New Deal's resettlement dream come true, in the blossoming in the sagebrush of 12,800 one-family farms (to keep the farms small, the U.S. will refuse to sell any one owner water for more than approximately 160 acres...
...Saga of a Prairie School (the New Symphony Orchestra, Don Gillis conducting; Texas Christian University, 6 sides). Composer-NBC Producer Gillis composed this, his "Symphony No. 7," in 1948 for the diamond jubilee of his alma mater. The pastoral passages have the feel of the prairie-of space and sagebrush, and there is some low-down hoedown too. The performance is good, the recording, made by London FFRR, excellent...
...suffered his near-fatal accident on Washington's Crystal Mountain (TIME, Oct. 10), he was no Eastern greenhorn in search of a thrill, but a mountain-climbing veteran who could trace his experience all the way back to his Yakima, Wash, boyhood. "Peanuts" Douglas took to climbing the sagebrush-covered foothills after a childhood attack of infantile paralysis left him a puny, spindly-legged weakling. In a few years the boy whose physique had barred him from strenuous sports was spending long weeks wandering over the sheer Cascades, sometimes toting a pack 40 miles in a single...