Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the powdery trough of the Southwest plains in recent weeks have come sporadic showers and light snows. To the dry-skinned farmers and ranchers who have been sitting out a searing drought for as long as eight years, the kiss of moisture on the crumbling land stirred a pulse-pounding flicker of hope; now, perhaps, seasonal rains would soak the ravaged soil, renew the empty springs. Last week the hoped-for moisture came. But it was a bitter draught...
Even as they totaled their losses, many of the weather-beaten farmers in the dry country could take a philosophical, hopeful view. With fresh moisture in the soil of the Southwest, said weathermen, local evaporation may keep alive the kind of storm clouds that have been drying out as they moved across the parched land. Said H. L. Jacobson, chief meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau at Kansas City: "That makes for a more favorable rain situation. In that respect spring is starting off beautifully." At week's end rains washed down into the area...
Nasser also hurried reconnaissance troops to a base just 40 miles southwest of the Gaza Strip while the Cairo radio shrilled that Saudi Arabia would prevent Israeli shipping from passing through the Gulf of Aqaba. If true (and at week's end the Saudis had neither confirmed nor denied), this was a double challenge to the U.S. because it 1) considers Saudi Arabia's King Saud a force for stability and order in the Mideast, and 2) has pledged itself to the principle of free and innocent passage in the Gulf of Aqaba...
Shortly before President Eisenhower took off for his flying inspection tour of the drought-parched Southwest in January, Stanley Walker, onetime Manhattan newsman, now a Texas rancher, turned out a dismal preview of the scene for his old newspaper, the New York Herald Tribune (1956 "was the year the windmills pumped air ... the termites ate the onions"). Last week Walker wrote again, this time with refreshing jubilance. Said he in the Trib: "Texas is turning green . . . like some beautiful, bewildering mirage . . . The reaction to the President's drought-study tour was friendly . . . but the comment was cautious . . . And then...
...signals. The company set out to persuade movie exhibitors that it would "give them a chance to get into the home and compete with TV on its own battleground." The idea appealed to Video Independent Theaters, a chain of 150 movie houses and 60 drive-ins in the Southwest...