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...heart of the populous Ganges valley, 10,000 villages crumbled and vanished, and farmers shared tree trunks with cobras in the worst floods since 1871. In the coastal state of Orissa, eight rivers thundered simultaneously into spate, killing at least 150, inundating 3,500 sq. mi. of drought-seared cropland. The state's 138 legislators dropped everything and rushed homeward to find out their families' fate...
Almost every city along the Austrian length of the Danube was partly under water, damage to adjoining cropland was estimated at $20 million, and 200 bridges were out. On the German-Austrian border a dam was blown up to prevent further flooding, and at one spot on the Danube, the bodies of 200 deer, 300 rabbits and 800 pheasants were washed ashore...
...much of the Ninety-Mile Desert is turning to excellent cropland and pasture. It looks as if 4,000,000 acres can be added in this easy way to Australia's productive area, and the scientists are looking around for other apparent deserts...
Through the old dust-bowl region-spreading outward from the area where the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles hang together-hundreds of soil-conservation districts had been formed; farmers had "windstripped" their fields by alternating bands of cropland with long panels of soil-anchoring grassland. They had planted tree windbreaks, built broad terraces to catch snow and water, and planted crops on long-range rotation schedules...
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