Word: drought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fires were a result of the severe drought and the excessive heat felt recently throughout France...
...members of a tribe in southern Rhodesia were convicted of murder. They had burned to death one Manduza in order to appease the rain goddess whom they thought he had violated. No rain had fallen for weeks, and it was held by them that he had caused the drought by offering her violence. His father, the chief of the tribe, consented to his son's death. When the case was tried in the government courts the tribesmen produced the rain goddess incarnated in a beautiful girl. She did not lower her dignity by speaking to mortals, and her henchmen...
...with them? St. Thomas has a good port for a naval station but will not be used by the Navy because Guantanamo Bay is superior. St. Croix is suitable for agriculture, but has had almost no rain for three years; so its sugarcane industry is practically ruined. The drought, which has also affected most of the Greater Antilles, is so great that there is not even enough water on the islands for cattle, and the cattle industry is vanishing. Prohibition spoiled the remaining occupations of the Virgins-the rum trade and the resupplying of ships. Rival West Indian ports...
Captain H. Hughes Hough, in command of the Virgins for the Navy Department, will ask Congress to appropriate money for a system of dams and reservoirs to preserve the islands from drought. But as Secretary Denby pointed out, the Navy Department is not responsible for the economic care of the territory. In fact, no department of the Government seems to have the care of the islanders. The Navy Department appoints a governor and lends a staff of engineers, but nothing more. Last year a commission from the Virgins visited Washington to lay their grievances before the Government. They spent several...
...government meteorologists. For instance, 73,320 tons of moisture would have to be drawn into the air to cause a rainfall of only one inch over an area of even one square mile, an amount which would be negligible in an arid region like Ari- zona. Widespread drought is due to lack of water in the air, and obviously no device can bring down what is not there. Proposals to cause precipitation by sprinkling dust particles in the air to condense the moisture are futile, say the Washington experts. It is admitted that small amounts of moisture can be precipitated...