Word: southwesterner
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...over the world hungry men waited. And in the Southwestern wheat belt, U.S. farmers had a new Agriculture Department warning to brood over: another dust bowl was in the making. During the war, too much land had been farmed too hard. Now there was grave danger that retributive weather would blow that land away...
Prosperous Bankrupts. Despite all this, roads in reorganization have made so much money during the war that they are actually solvent. Some examples: in four and a half years, the Cotton Belt (St.Louis-Southwestern) earned its annual interest charges 42 times and made about $150 a common share to boot; in 1944, the Missouri Pacific had excess profits of $46,380,000-larger than any other railroad system in the U.S. except the Santa Fe. Yet the Cotton Belt, Mopac and other roads with good wartime profit records continue in reorganization...
...committee wanted UNO to live just where a big chunk of New York City's wealthier commuters already live -in 42 square miles of southwestern Connecticut and New York's suburban Westchester County. Yugoslavia's Dr. Stoyan Gavrilovic pointed out the area's ad vantages. It was within easy commuting distance of Manhattan, where UNO dele gates would meet until the world capital was finished. It was close to railroads, the famed Merritt Parkway, the Westchester County Airport. The country was beautiful - green, rolling, dotted with fine houses, clubs, old towns...
...since such Moscow pressure often means merely a drive for political concessions. This time even the ethnology was flimsy; Turks said the claimed area's Georgian and Armenian population is under 2%. The Kremlin had larger considerations. On the whole vast sweep of Russia's western and southwestern border, Turkey is the one country without a pro-Soviet regime. Russia wants to anchor the line. If its pressure could bring a Moscow-influenced Turkish government, Russia might forget her claim to the coastal region...
...Quite unintentional," said the Devil. "I have no religious prejudices. When The Gauntlet opens, this Wingo is studying at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has married 'a tiny, merry raindrop of a girl' who has bobbed hair (it is 1923) and insists on being called Kathie instead of Katherine. She is also pregnant, and the Reverend Wingo is wondering where he is going to get the money for the delivery. So he goes to his friend, the Reverend Page Musselwhite, and tells him: 'I want to find Truth. It seems to me that at times...