Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congressmen hear about fish, corn and hound dogs...
...five-month-old son James Earl Carter IV. Chip will return to Plains to work in the family's peanut warehouse. His dad was already vacationing down on the farm. The President angled for catfish, had breakfast with Miss Lillian in her pond house and inspected peanut, corn and watermelon fields. To while away the steamy Georgia afternoon, he invited the army of reporters camping out in Americus to come over and "bat some balls" on the Plains diamond. Brother Billy Carter, wearing a sports shirt emblazoned BELLY FLOP AND CANNON BALL DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS, disloyally took the mound...
Welcome rains came to parts of the Midwest and South last week, soaking parched reservoirs, saving some thirsty crops and providing water for swimming pools and lawn sprinklers -but no such fortune befell the West and Southwest. There drought stubbornly persisted like a biblical plague, withering corn and wheat, drying up horse and cattle water holes, kindling brush and forest fires (including some 400 in California), and cutting back on water and energy supplies for about 30 million Americans...
Dawson's plight is common to the Southeastern U.S. From central Florida to Atlanta to eastern Mississippi, the drought has already doomed such staples as hay and corn, normally harvested this month. The soybean, cotton and peanut crops are all endangered. Parts of the region are suffering their worst water shortage in nearly a quarter of a century. With most of the Far West and large stretches of the Midwest also in the throes of a prolonged dry spell (see map), the acting director of the Department of Agriculture's crop weather reporting service, Lyle Benny, cites...
...much of the Southeast, though, the damage has already been done. With 130 of Georgia's 159 counties declared disaster areas. 40% of the soybean crop in the state has been destroyed, costing farmers nearly $60 million. Damage to Georgia's corn crop has reached $162 million, and hay and pastureland losses total another $102 million. In Alabama, officials say three-quarters of the corn crop is gone, and certain counties in the Florida panhandle report the destruction of 95% of their corn and hay. The drought has proved a boon for bugs: without rain, insecticides fail...