Word: artesian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months, truck farmers around Xochimilco had been pulling down the water level by digging artesian wells to feed their cauliflower and carrot patches. The municipality of Mexico City did nothing about it. As the waterline in the canals dipped under the one-foot mark (four feet is normal), the boatmen, led by Pacheco, tackled the problem themselves. Armed with picks & shovels, 1,000 of them with their wives and children started digging in the mucky canals. Thousands more joined them, all seeking new springs to feed Xochimilco...
...their questions asked. With scarcely a break in her marathon monologue, Tallulah had danced the Charleston for them, played piano, told jokes, done imitations and a few ballet turns, tossed off some mint juleps, fed them shrimp and mushrooms and showed them the house. She had discussed her artesian well ("We had to dig 260 feet, and we finally hit 25 gallons a minute"), her health ("I have the arteries of a girl of 16"), her finances ("I haven't bought a mink coat since 1934, for god's sake"), how she hates the theater...
...Hostile critics have found his music as bony and bare as a blackboard counterpoint exercise in his Harvard classroom. But the Third had three movements of lyrical tranquillity before bursting into a noisy finale. The finale, said Piston, was written in Vermont while a well-driller was digging an artesian well outside his window. "I had to write the music loud enough to overcome the noise outside," said Piston...
...artesian wells and 225 windmills supply enough water daily for a city...
Robert the First. Kleberg the First put the gaunt ranch back on its feet. To combat drought, which periodically killed off thousands of cattle, in 1893 Kleberg drilled the first artesian well in those parts. He built the first of the concrete water troughs for cattle which are now sprinkled around the ranch. He brought in English Shorthorns and Herefords, the railroad (Missouri Pacific), and founded Kingsville. He built the Santa Gertrudis main house...