Word: southwesterner
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...southwestern Texas for a fortnight little furry cotton seeds have been lying in the womb of Mother Earth sucking up winter rain, beginning to unfold inside, thrusting out little white roots, pushing up diminutive stalks. Day by day and mile by mile to the east and north other furry cotton seeds are being stuck into the ground for the same purpose. In a few weeks the cotton planting season will be over. For that reason the U. S. Senate last week curbed its 96 tongues, limiting each to 15 minutes exercise until a new farm bill should be passed. Passed...
Shepard was with the United States Forest Service from 1913 to 1930, serving as a forest ranger and supervisor in the Southwestern District of the U. S. Forest Service, as Assistant Chief of the government forestry research laboratories in Washington, and as Assistant Chief of the Branch of Public Relations of the Forest Service...
...Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt") Railway announced that on Jan. 1, 1956, it would default on $584,000 then due as interest on bonds. The" Southern Pacific owns about 87% of the "Cotton Belt," in which it has a $20,000,000 investment...
...Northern Front and Southern Front, but orders which considerably mystified correspondents last week stopped both in their tracks. At the headquarters of Old de Bono rumors were thicker than gnats. Some correspondents cabled that a camel corps of 20,000 men was being organized in the southwestern corner of Eritrea for a dash, not at any of the main Ethiopian positions but at Britain's "sphere of influence" in the general direction of Lake Tana...
...summer it is cool enough for polo. And in winter its thick clay houses can be kept warm. Surrounded by mountains, Quetta's plain is green with grapes and melons. Under British patronage the town has grown to 60,000, reared some fine Western buildings, drawn trade from southwestern Asia. And the Pathans keep life in Quetta from ever getting really dull. Last week, however, it was not the Pathans but the most disastrous earthquake in twelve years that picked out beautiful Quetta for destruction...