Word: southwesterners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mammoth in the Bull Ring. The existence of human life in the southwestern U.S. during the late glacial period was confirmed in 1927 with the discovery at Folsom, N.M. of chipped stone "Folsom points" between the fossilized ribs of an extinct bison. Ever since, archaeologists speculated whether "Folsom man," following the herds of bison, horses and mammoths, had migrated south. The first shred of evidence that he might have was a fossilized mammoth tusk turned up last summer in the excavation for Mexico City's new bull ring. The tusk bore a deep incision which, said the archaeologists, might...
...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...
...Chicago & North Western; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande Western; Missouri Pacific; New York, New Haven & Hartford; St. Louis-San Francisco; St. Louis-Southwestern; Western Pacific...
...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...