Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slim six-footer at the bar had an unfamiliar face, but to the gamblers in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, southwest of New Orleans, he looked like an all right guy. He thumbed his racing form with professional elan and flashed a horse-choking roll of bills when he placed a bet or got quarters for the slot machines. These were such solid credentials that the gamblers never bothered to ask who the stranger...
...expensive price-support system, said Fleming, has tended to keep cotton' production in the old, uneconomic mule-power farms of the Southeast, while retarding the natural shift of cotton growing to the low-cost, highly productive tractorized flatland farms of the South and of the irrigated Southwest and West. This keeps cotton prices so high that they provide an umbrella for foreign growers and a powerful incentive for consumers to shift to synthetic fibers. To cure the situation, Fleming advocated gradual reductions in U.S. cotton price-support levels, gradual removal of U.S. acreage controls, and gradual lifting...
...generations in disease-ridden, edge-of-hunger poverty. Untrained for the fast changing white men's world, they seemed resigned to everlasting subsistence-living and stagnation. Then, a year ago, money began flowing in as U.S. oil companies scrambled for gas and oil leases in the Southwest's vast Paradox Basin, much of it lying in the Navajo and Ute reservations...
...loyalty to the prosperous tribe and abiding faith in its future are running strong. "We are growing," a Navajo leader explained last week. "Indian tribes may be declining in some places, but the Southwest will have to deal with the Navajos forever...
...team had just won the Southwest conference baseball championship for the 31st time in 42 years, but the University of Texas' Coach August Bibb Falk, 58, sounded like a man who had hot heard the score. "It's a 'five out' team," he snarled around the butt of his cigar. "Five men don't get on base enough to count. Besides that, we don't have any power. Why, we have a shortstop and second baseman hitting .300-that is, they're hitting .150 apiece...