Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extra waiters were engaged to serve cooling drinks to perspiring legislators in the House of Commons terrace restaurant. A woman fainted from heat in a Gravesend bus and, as her collapse wedged her inextricably between the seats, the whole bus had to be driven to the hospital. An unseasonable drought half ruined the strawberry crop (strawberries and clotted Devonshire cream is a favorite English dish this time of year), but the countryside had seldom looked greener. Elsewhere in Europe the heat wave also spread...
...only Congo officials home on leave thought the temperature bearable. Lack of rain hurt the Belgian fruit crop. Karlstad, Swedish manufacturing town, had the hottest weather for Scandinavia (86°), and Stockholm consumed 183,400 cubic meters (48,417,600 gallons) of water in one day. Drought meant bad crops and forest fires for Sweden. Copenhagen reported three deaths from sunstroke...
Mayor Rogers: "To be frank about it, there wouldn't have been, even though we went through four consecutive years of drought...
...Frostproof, Fla., fruit growers worried by a five-month drought sought out 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. Her method (which, she says, has never failed in over 400 trials) : find a likely-looking body of water, sit by it several hours daily until it rains. For four days, on and off, she sat by Lake Reedy. Then it began to pour...
...drought of liquid refreshment was averted at the Dartmouth Carnival by official leniency and a quick wire to the state capital, when the disappearance of the liquor license of the Dartmouth Outing Club threatened disaster Friday night...