Word: tulia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biting Texas panhandle wind flung dirt into their weather-creased faces, some 50 solemn cotton farmers met near the town of Tulia (pop. 5,033) last week for a ritual as sorrowful as a wake. They were there to cast reluctant bids on the well-worn tools and machinery with which Dan Altman, 65, and his son Danny, 34, had scratched out an increasingly difficult living in a way they loved: farming 1,440 acres of irrigated land. The buyers were ambivalent. They were seeking bargains, but they hated to see the Altmansget hurt. And each feared that...
...wife Billy Louise rented 320 acres in Tulia at the end of World War II and raised their three children quite comfortably. When Danny got out of the Army in 1969, father and son leased another 1,120 acres. For a few years they managed to build up some savings. But their expenses began to rise steeply in 1972, while the price they got for their cotton fell. Still, they hung on. Then, in 1980, came a disastrous drought. Dan Sr., who was back farming his original 320 acres, was able to break even. Danny, working the other...