Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western U.S., for example, where the Federal Government has spent nearly $21.5 billion on water development, the price of subsidized irrigation water is unrealistically low-from one-third to one-tenth of the actual cost of delivering it. Says University of Washington Law Professor Ralph W. Johnson, an authority on the legal and economic problems of water: "It is time we stopped thinking about water as a unique commodity, governed by novel rules outside the ordinary economic pattern. It is no more unique than food, clothing or shelter...
...figures in Orozco's mural in the rotunda of the University at Guadalajara is more than the record of a painter's solution to a difficult problem in perspective; it is in itself a master drawing in the great tradition of Western...
...Reward is a U.S. western from a book written by an Englishman and made by a French director with a Swedish leading man, a French-American heroine, and a number of Mexican actors who deliver at least half the dialogue in Spanish. These exotic ingredients were pressure-cooked on location in the 125° midsummer heat of California's Death Valley, and the result is indigestible...
...improved the nation's balance of payments by cutting back U.S. bank loans to foreigners and repatriating more profits from ventures abroad. But they will in crease their foreign investments by 20% this year, spending a record $7.4 billion, about half of it in highly developed and competitive Western Europe. The bulk of these investments will not damage the U.S. balance of payments. Reason: U.S. companies are increasingly turning to European capital markets, in varying ways, to finance their Continental invasion...
...Prairie wagons were built for maneuverability and speed-but were not expected to outlast their westward journey. Steamboat racing became a popular passion, despite its appalling accident record: between 1825 and 1850 at least 150 major explosions on western steamboats ("half boat, half alligator") killed more than 1,400 people. The railroads, hastily and flimsily built, also had an appalling accident rate. No one seemed to mind that railroad travelers were jammed together in long boxlike cars without distinction of social class and that stopovers were brief. In time the quick lunch-counter meal became an American institution; gregariousness...