Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economics, the number of hired hands per 100 U. S. farms increased from 73 in the spring of 1935 to 89 in the last planting season. Average farm wages, with board & room, rose from $19.11 per month to $20.89. Farm income was running at the highest level since 1930. Drought, particularly in the Northwest, is the weak spot in the current farm picture...
Nevertheless. Any loss in purchasing power in drought areas will be more than offset by spending of Bonus money. Economists are beginning to believe that indirect Bonus influences will eventually be greater than the effects of immediate spending. Even if a large proportion of the $1,900,000,000 Bonus bonds are not cashed, their possession will induce freer spending of regular income. Industries which will benefit most are clothing, building, radio, refrigerators, electric appliances, automobiles...
...Deal but economics and weather saved the potato farmers' shirts. Having taken it on the chin so badly in 1935, growers naturally planted fewer potatoes for 1936. On top of curtailed planting came late killing frosts in the North. In the Southeast a two-month drought has done more than legislation could ever do. Fortnight ago, potato conditions in Georgia were so bad that Governor Eugene Talmadge, a sizable potato grower himself, commanded: "Tell all the preachers to have meetings Sunday afternoon at three o'clock to pray for rain...
...Plains, the inrush of speculators in the wake of the railroads. A homesteader's plow bites into soil held together by the deep roots of prairie grass. Warns a voice: ''Settler, plough at your peril!" A grizzled farmer observes, without comprehending, the first sign of drought. Then comes a Wartime boom in which higher & higher prices are quickly followed by more & more wheat planting until the grass that once bound this country together has given way to endless fields under a parching sun. Finally, to mournful music by Composer Thomson, are shown the ravages of the drifting...
...Governor Landon has stuck to the law's letter. But the enormous myth which GOPartisans have made of his budget-balancing feat may be finally debunked by reflection on the probable state of Kansas' finances if the Federal budget had been balanced since 1933, thus depriving dust, drought and Depression-stricken Kansas of the $400,000,000 of Federal money which has poured in from such sources as RFC, HOLC and FCA loans, AAA checks and Relief...