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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High & Dry. Last week New York, and many of the 80 surrounding towns which suck like clustering leeches on its water lines, were getting perilously close to that unimaginable point at which water would no longer run from millions of kitchen faucets. Its dams stood high and dry above great...
New York reacted to history's worst water crisis much as it had reacted to the news that German planes might blow it up: nobody really believed it, but everybody did his best to see that somebody else did something about it. Even Communist officials urged their members to...
Undeterred by the fact that industry-particularly breweries, laundries and power plants-gulped up almost half the city's water and that one leaking toilet could waste a million gallons a year, the patriotic launched dozens of odd water-saving schemes. Restaurants quit volunteering water with meals; citizens had...
It could be true, as cantankerous Andrew Jackson Gillis kept insisting, that he was not the same old boy. "Bossy" Gillis still looked as seedy as Burpee's spring catalogue, and he fitted into the gentle, museum-piece decor of old Newburyport, Mass, like a prime bull at a...
No one on Dallas' Swiss Avenue wanted to seem unappreciative or lacking in real Yuletide spirit, but, the neighbors pleaded, the plain fact was that the thing had become a nuisance.