Word: watford
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...Watford City...
...whistle stops in North Dakota, pick Watford City (TIME, April 3) ? This is not outraged civic pride speaking -just curiosity and amusement. We in North Dakota are grateful for a little favorable publicity. . . . However, you make North Dakota sound like the last frontier. I'll grant that Watford City, along with the rest of northwestern North Dakota, has had its disasters and prosperity on a more epic scale than other parts of the state, but you don't have to be supermen to survive out here...
Across the jagged Badlands, over the rolling plains of stubble wheat, and even in Watford City (pop. 1,087), there were still solid patches of snow. But the miracle had happened. Throughout North Dakota, the big thaw had come. The hard-bitten men who farm the northern tip of the onetime poverty-stricken U.S. "dust bowl" had survived a decade of dust, drought. WPA, grasshoppers, mortgages. Now, after a three-year spell of war and golden weather, they could afford a little fun in town...
Last week in Watford City, its 95 government bins groaning with grain, its four elevators busily cleaning seed wheat, MacKenzie County examined its new prosperity...
...Blaine Whipple, editor of the weekly MacKenzie County Farmer and Watford Guide, never had fatter advertising lineage or a bigger circulation (1,771 paid-up subscribers...