Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...halt was called to the merry-making on account of the legal drought, however, and the fraternity dances went on as scheduled...
...five and one-half years, Howard Hunter administered in the Midwest the spending of about one-third of all Federal relief and work-relief appropriations. On his payrolls were 35 to 40% of all WPAsters. The drought of 1936 and the floods of 1937 were his to handle...
...under a temperature of 114° (see p. 29), smoke came down so thick that visibility was limited to a block. It was dark by 3 p.m. in the country. Much of Melbourne's watershed was devastated, increasing the probability that water consumption, already restricted because of the drought, would have to be further cut down...
...Argentina since the first of the year. Behind this prohibition many observers detected the heavy hand of John Bull. Because she buys from Argentina far more than she sells to her, Britain has always been high in Argentina's favor. The U. S. (except when the 1935-37 drought necessitated unusual imports of Argentine grain) ordinarily buys less from Argentina than she sells her, does not enjoy Argentina's favor. Long a sore point with Argentina is the prohibition against the import of fresh Argentine meat to the U. S., a ban largely due to the claims...
This drew hearty applause. But it remained for Manufacturers Trust's dignified Harvey Dow Gibson to win the ultimate in stockholder encomiums. When he concluded a lengthy explanation of the banking drought by expressing the belief that "there is, as we enter the new year, less cause for pessimism than there has been for some time," an unidentified stockholder rose to pay him tribute. After fumbling around for words, the hard-pressed man finally gushed: "If I were a woman, I'd say you're wonderful...