Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only flying saucers which Menzel's theory does not explain are the green fireballs that have been reported with extraordinary frequency in the Southwest. But Menzel does not take them very seriously. In clear-aired New Mexico and Arizona, he says, meteors are seen oftener than in cloudier places. According to Menzel's colleague, Meteor Expert Fred Whipple, they often look green because of vaporized magnesium from their stony material...
...rocketing Alberta oil boom. A public auction of government-owned oil and natural-gas leases totaled $12,881,436, surpassing the previous record for a one-day sale by more than $3,000,000. One of the leases, for a 160-acre plot in the Bonnie Glen field southwest of Edmonton, was sold to the Texaco Exploration Co. for $3,110,000, the highest price ever paid for a single parcel of Alberta oil land...
...Atomic City opens with a bang, the biggest bang of the century -- an atomic bomb explosion. This, plus the setting of part of the plot in Los Alamos, the Oak Ridge of the Southwest, gives the film its title. But the legend of Simon Legree gives it its plot...
Before World War II Cicchino was an Assistant Director of the American Red Cross and later spent to duration as an Air Force Captain in the Southwest Pacific Theater...
This building also shelters 400 chickens a number of roosters, and a peculiar rodent known as the cotton rat which is indigenous to the Southwest United States and can jump over...