Word: drought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegation from the Anti-Saloon League called on the President to urge on him the necessity of absolute drought, but he refused to enter the verbal battle, saying that he believed progress is being made in enforcement...
Just Beyond. It seems scarcely necessary to complain about this venture. It was a story of drought in Australia and closed after seven performances...
...found, three-to five-story communal dwellings, some housing 600 to 1,200 Indians, whose hieroglyphics are not unlike those of the Chinese. The age of these cities was put between 2,000 and 5,000 years. In Roosevelt Lake (Arizona), a city emerged from the water during a drought. Like the Nevada aborigines, these Arizona men were big. Their culture was much higher, from Mexico probably, even, considering their great numbers, the possible original of Mexican culture...
...excuse given by the Government estimators for the sudden recent jump in their cotton figures, is "the September rains, which have sensationally improved prospects in regions of the cotton belt harassed by drought, especially in Texas." Indeed, private estimates of the coming crop have experienced similar (though lesser) increases for the same reason. But on the announcement of the last Government estimate, cotton prices on the New York Cotton Exchange broke $8 a bale to the lowest figures this year, and cotton traders are just now inclined to speak of Government estimators and statisticians in terms completely uncomplimentary...
...been shipped in at 5? a gallon, $4 a tank, and $20 a car. Mines have paid $3,000 a month for their water supply. A proclamation by the Governor of South Carolina called upon citizens of that state to fast and pray for a break in the drought...