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...Watford City...
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...
Driver Carnaggio said that a good way to begin was a tour of Washington for $5. The couple, who revealed that they were Mr. & Mrs. Francis J. Smith of Watford, England, agreed. During the two-hour trip Carnaggio interspersed his sight-seeing lecture with many a remark about the beauties of nearby Virginia. Upon returning to the hotel he easily sold the Smiths on the idea of a $75 trip through Virginia. Three weeks later the trio turned up in Manhattan, having been to Mt. Vernon, Arlington, Yorktown, Jamestown, Charlottesville, over the Skyline Drive to Gettysburg, Pa., then north through...