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Most of the work would be water conservation - dams, reservoirs and terraces to hold the rains if & when they did come. But the only permanent solution, declared Administrator Hopkins, was to turn much of the West's cropland into pasture, run the enormous political and sociological risk of moving families wholesale off their ruined acres. By week's end rain had revived the cot ton, tobacco and spirits of the South, but for most of the West there was no relief, no prospect of relief. With some 100,000,000 bushels of wheat burned away, crop statisticians last...