Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harvest rolled north last week, the red cereal soared to a high of $1.26½ per bu. on the Chicago Board of Trade, registered a net gain of 10? for the week. Even more important than war talk was the disastrous failure of the wheat crop in Canada, where drought & rust in the past few weeks have cut 150,000,000 bu. off early estimates of the Dominion's harvest...
...year. In Kansas, greatest U. S. wheat-growing State, the estimate was 142,264,000 bu. of hard winter wheat compared to 120,000,000 bu. last year. Winter wheat production for the country as a whole will be about 649,000,000 bu., nearly twice that of the drought year, 1933, and 130,000,000 bu. over 1936. Since this is roughly the amount of wheat that goes annually into the U. S. breadbasket, it leaves the equivalent of the entire spring wheat for export -according to the Board's best guess, between...
...there would be flood control pork, earmarking or no earmarking. New York's Alfred Beiter declared the Public Works bloc had done "better than we bargained for." Texas' Marvin Jones did not conceal his opinion that he would get much more than he had asked for his drought control. Only Oklahoma's Wilburn Cartwright, who wanted his pork in the form of road construction, was still fighting for his amendment...
...Washington, D. C. six years ago, Rev. Gose Zelder Brown of Mount Zion Baptist Church (Negro) mounted his pulpit, preached for three hours on Gambling, took a little nourishment, continued preaching on Dancing, Famine, Pestilence, Drought. He did not stop until he had preached 88,794 words in 12 hr., 10 min. Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley publicized Preacher Brown's achievement as an ecclesiastical record. It stood until last fortnight, when in the Negro Monumental Baptist Church in Pittsburgh, Dr. David Buyabuve Mdodana preached in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his pastorate...
...Food Chains, which has been creating an astonishing reserve of good will for its members by organizing selling drives to relieve farm surpluses. Last year it started off with a nation-wide campaign in canned peaches, cleaned up the glut in short order. When last year's Drought flooded the market with cattle that could no longer be fed, the chains managed to increase beef sales 34% in the middle of summer, a poor beef season. The same thing was done with turkeys last autumn. From this type of practical relief the chain stores have gained most of their...