Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with Professor Dobie that the coyote is one of the most interesting of animals. He is a natural as a "story-maker." A friend of mine in Colorado saw a coyote trot boldly into his farmyard in broad daylight, whereupon his big collie gave chase, was ambushed by two accomplices of the decoy, and killed by the three of them within 200 yards of the house...
Thousands of landlubbers had to contend with nature, too; the eastern slope of the Rockies, usually as dry as a bowl of corn flakes during a milk strike, was wet down by torrential rains. Streets were flooded, cows marooned and rivers pushed over their banks in Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. Almost everywhere else the weather was hot; beer and bathing-suit sales boomed and female sunbathers went to the office looking as though they had been parboiled. The sun was almost the undoing of people near Wilmington, Del., where a dead whale washed ashore and stank up the countryside...
Other airlines were also pushing vacation tours. Eastern offered a packaged "houseparty air tour," from New York to Miami and return. It included a week at a good hotel, food, dancing, wiener roast, a cruise and a champagne party-all for $153.82. United Airlines offered tours to Hawaii, to Colorado dude ranches, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Canada...
...which the trade calls "ozoners" and "airers," could also point to a recent triumph over man and nature. In Denver last fortnight, a once skeptical Hollywood had staged its first world premiere at an ozoner. Heavy rain lashed at the arena, but to see a Warner western called Colorado Territory (see below), 7,000 of the faithful waited for two hours in 1,500 cars...
...Colorado Territory (Warner) sets long-legged Joel McCrea to work on an old plot in a handsome new location. This time McCrea is an outlawed train robber with a price on his head and the hope in his heart of becoming a simple rancher. Like many a sagebrush Robin Hood, McCrea is bad only because he is good. He stakes a couple of settlers (Dorothy Malone and Henry Hull) to the cost of a new well, and, to feather the nest of a sick buddy, agrees to stick up just one more train. As helpers, he has a gang...