Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debt retirement and interest on public debt would be up. In addition, the sum of all other expenditures would be $448,986,000 over 1936. chiefly because of public works and national defense. Finally, the President dangled a figure left out of his regular columns. If the Drought's aftermath was as bad as anticipated, or if private industry failed to take enough men off relief rolls, he warned, he might have to ask Congress to add an extra $500,000,000 for relief to his total figure...
Waste (Bobbs-Merrill, 50?) by the same author is an engineer's popularization of the problems of soil erosion, drought, deforestation, soil fertility, etc. Towards the end Waste marches on into a New Deal view of unemployment and relief. Potentiality: 25,000 votes for Roosevelt...
...butter was selling at 37? per Ib., were crossing to Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have to get more for his milk from the processors and distributors. And he needed...
...dairymen made least happy by the State scale and the summer's drought were a pair of brothers named Stanley and Felix Piseck. Born in Peru, Ill. of Polish parents, they, still own a farm there, have lived for the past 16 years near Poland, N. Y. where they operate four farms. They led New York's milk strike of 1933 which failed to enlist solid support. This year their agitation for better milk prices has found much more sympathy. They claim 45,000 of the State's 1,000,000 dairy farmers as members of their...
...worry he imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There is no isolation so poignant as that which worry brings. At such a time life slips from our grasp, average contacts no longer assure us, people become strangers, to whom we talk across an unseen gulf. Smiles that .'Drought comfort somehow mock us, as if the world had become a pantomime and our intimates the weriest shadows. The day's routine stretches like a solitary waste; there is fatigue in our souls." There are three stages: the first, or stimulating phase, when there is a fair chance...