Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verve of his previous radio heart-to-hearts when he turned to re-employment and his favorite theme of economic freedom. Said he: "My friends!* I have been on a journey of husbandry. . . . I saw drought devastation in nine states. I talked with families who had lost their wheat crop, lost their corn crop, lost their livestock, lost the water in their well, lost their garden and come through to the end of the summer without one dollar of cash resources, facing the winter without feed or food-facing a planting season without seed to put in the ground...
...doorstep was Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins who sought permission to increase the number of farmers on drought relief from 90,000 to 150,000. Next to bring Drought to his doorstep were Louis J. Taber and Fred Freestone of the National Grange, who arrived to suggest a system of crop insurance which they had already presented to Alf Landon, who promised it favorable consideration. Franklin Roosevelt promised no less. As for more immediate Drought problems, the President laid out in detail his trip to confer with officials of 16 Drought States, beginning this week at Bismarck...
Drought 1936. Unique is the Drought of 1936. Early this month the Weather Bureau found that less rain fell and higher temperatures were registered than ever before in the upper tier of Plains States. But, largely because the Drought came later in the season, crop prospects as a whole are brighter than in 1934. Pastures are in worse condition in many sections, but the livestock situation is not nearly so desperate,as two years ago, because there are fewer beasts to feed and water. Spot corn last week sold at $1.37 a bushel in Chicago, a 16-year high...
Corn, a humble U. S. crop that usually stays on the farm to feed hogs, cattle and chickens, had its day last week. What had been expected to be one of the greatest corn yields in history had shriveled under Drought...
Forty-six years ago, bearing out Scientist Abbot's theory, the U. S. corn crop was a measly...