Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggestion of the local Chamber of Commerce, the Ministerial Alliance of Canyon, Texas (pop. 4,364) started a series of public prayers for rain. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., also in the Southwest's drought area, Roman Catholic Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne ordered prayers for rain, too. A few hours later, rain fell...
American Indians are on the warpath against cheap Japanese imitations of tribal handicrafts. From the Southwest, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service have received complaints about Japanese versions of Navaho beadwork, Zuni jewelry, Hopi kachina dolls (painted wooden dolls representing Indian deities). From the Northwest have come reports of made-in-Japan totem poles and ivory carvings. The Japanese imitations sell for as little as one-fifth Indian prices. Up until last year, the Park Service had a regulation against sales of foreign-made handicrafts by concessionaires in national parks, but the ban was lifted...
...drought, which began in 1950, was hardly noticed at first; the borders of the drought area varied from year to year because of local weather conditions. In parts of Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and Illinois, for instance, rainfall has been far below normal, yet still far above that of the Southwest. But in the five most affected states (see map), the earth has grown drier every year. Parts of Texas, between the Red River and the weakly trickling Rio Grande, has gotten less than 10% of normal rainfall for four years; southwestern Oklahoma has gotten little more, and areas of Colorado...
...enough to light a city of 500,000, Fort Randall may well serve an immediate purpose of another nature. By impounding high waters this spring, it will not only help prevent floods but also help keep the lower Missouri and Mississippi Rivers navigable this summer if the Southwest's drought continues...
...Fort Dearborn plan (named after the early American fort on the city's site) was largely the work of Architect Nathaniel A. Owings, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Realtor Arthur Rubloff, developer of the sprawling Evergreen Park shopping center on Chicago's southwest side and the postwar "magnificent mile" on the city's famed Michigan Avenue...