Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City has few hotels to shelter visitors. It lacks adequate water or electricity. Three miles to the south in Bethlehem, Christmastide promises to be sad and bitter. The village where Christ was born is jammed with Arab refugees; 55,000 hungry, homeless, hopeless outcasts of war live in an area that normally supports 12,000. The one good road (10 minutes by motorcar) to Jerusalem is in Israeli hands; the only other road is hardly more than a tortuous trail through the desolate Judean hills...
Some big problems must still be licked. One is the lack of water needed for refining. All big U.S. shale deposits lie in the most arid sections of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Another problem is the question of ash disposal: more than a ton of ash is piled up for every barrel of oil produced...
Skidmore's public relations department remarked that it "appreciates your generous offer." However, there is "no water crisis at Skidmore as yet as we have the Saratoga Springs water to take us over any emergency...
Waves of telegrams tickered into the CRIMSON offices over the weekend as colleges replied to the editors' plea for relieving the New York water shortage...
Editors calculated that if each of the 1700 University students from the New York area complied, 6,092,800 gallons of water would be saved...