Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America's farmers," said a United Press dispatch from Washington last week, "need not worry about another serious drought until 1975." Reason: Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot...
With the news that a citizen of Salt Lake, Utah, has decided it would be a good thing to settle the flood and drought problem through the production of artificial glaciers, the issue of what to do with snow again comes squarely before the American public, from the loftiest to the lowliest, the wisest to the dullest citizen...
Briefly the snow problem consists of an inability to get rid of the snow in the winter and an inability to find any in the spring. Now begins the time of clogged streets and downed telephone wires. All too soon come the days of flood followed by those of drought...
Texas' Senator Tom Connally: "If the Senator from Michigan will tell . . . when it is going to rain and when the sun is going to shine and when we are going to have a drought...
...shallow tanks of nutrient solution, Dr. Gericke has grown tomatoes, potatoes, corn, beans, gladioli, begonias, dozens of other plants and vegetables-free from drought, disease, insects, floods, erosion (TIME, March 1). In a tank of 1,100 of an acre area he grew 1,226 Ib. of lush red tomatoes. His giant tobacco plants are especially impressive (see cut). From 25 sq. ft. of water he got 100 cantaloupes, declared this to be 20 times the yield expected from soil. Pushing against the roof of his greenhouse, with its massive roots in water, is an 18-ft. banana plant...