Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought his price was right also: $7,990. Veterans could buy the house for $90 down and $58 a month (for 25 years). The monthly payments covered taxes, water, fire insurance, mortgage payments and interest. When Levitt put up a for sale sign, the crowd got so big that police had to keep them in line (see cut). In seven days, Levitt & Sons sold 707 houses, nearly $6,000,000 worth...
...Federal Alcohol Tax Unit announced that fewer than 3% of New York's 20,000 bars water their whiskey...
...single-engined light airplanes when he flew a 185-h.p. Beechcraft 2,407 miles* from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif. Said Odom, stepping out of the plane after his 22-hour flight: "I've never been so thirsty in my life. I guess it was looking at all that water...
...gentle and soft-voiced natives of Bikini Atoll did not see the two terrible explosions that took place there in 1946. They had been taken by the U.S. Navy to another island called Rongerik. They did not like Rongerik. The fishing was not good; there was not enough fresh water; drought had decimated the coconuts...
...Bikini was not a suitable home any more. But the Navy could take them somewhere else. The native leaders looked over several other islands and finally chose a mile-long speck called Kili, 500 miles from their original home. There was no lagoon but there was plenty of water, much breadfruit and many coconuts, more than on Rongerik, more even than on loved and unforgotten Bikini. Last week the little band of atomic exiles, now numbering 181, were settled on Kili, making the best of things and hoping never to have to move again...