Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle, where the survey began, Dr. Tugwell reassured a gathering of farm experts by declaring: "All this talk about depopulating the Great Plains is foolish. We don't want to depopulate the country. We want to fortify it to withstand drought...
Baca County was, however, only one stop on a 2,000-mile itinerary, the interviews at Springfield only one incident in the Commission's attempt to learn about the Drought firsthand. Last week there were other incidents and other scenes...
Last week a caravan of seven dusty Army automobiles drew up before the courthouse in Springfield, Baca County, Colo., cradle of the Dust Bowl. Out of the cars clambered the President's special Drought Commission chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke. His chief coadjutor was Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell. Under the cottonwood trees on the courthouse lawn they listened for an hour to the tales of some 50 farm folk who knew Drought by bitter experience...
...Typical was the story of Widow Anna Eickleberry who had lived in Baca County 26 years. She voiced the perennial complaint of the Drought belt: shiftless farmers who have long since lost everything get Federal relief, but hard-working farmers can get no aid to keep them from destitution...
...Rapid City, S. Dak. Chairman Cooke indulged in some self-satisfying hindsight: "If a program had been placed in effect 25 years ago this present drought would have been felt much less...