Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boosted back 45% of the way from their Depression bottom to 1929 highs. Farm income was upped to $6,000,000,000, a round billion above 1933, exclusive of $500,000,000 paid by AAA for restricting production. But the biggest scarcity factor in boosting farm prices was the Drought...
...London; cruised for a month aboard the U. S. S. Houston from Annapolis to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, through the Panama Canal to Hawaii and back to Portland, Ore.; traveled across the continent with the cheers of multitudes in his ears and the news of drought-slaking rains in his wake; relaxed as the country squire at Hyde Park; toured the Tennessee Valley; sunned himself in the pool at Warm Springs. And during 1934, he spoke 23 times over the radio, more than any previous President in any previous year. But in the same time his wife managed...
...Seminary. When in 1930 he went to Saskatchewan, Archbishop McGuigan found a fine archiepiscopal palace, no seminary. He gave up his palace, went to live with his priests, founded a seminary. Likewise he commended himself quickly to his Church's attention by financing his see through a long drought; by holding western Canada's first regional Eucharistic Congress; by organizing religious vacation schools for prairie children, a Catholic Youth Movement and an efficient Catholic Federated Charities...
...before and only a few million short of the company's 1926 high of $15,000,000. During the first ten months, said President Gustavus Franklin Swift, U. S. meat-eaters had consumed nearly three pounds more meat and lard than the year before. The forced marketing of drought-stricken animals had led the company at times to operate "at a rate far beyond what it had always regarded as peak capacity...
Hardest hit by Drought were corn and oats-both the shortest crops since 1881. Two years ago the corn crop was 2,900,000,000 bu., worth $560,000,000 at a farm price of less than 20? per bu. This year the harvest was only 1,380,000,000 bu. At an average price of 78? per bu. it was valued at more than $1,000,000,000. The oat crop was less than one-half that of 1932 but the farm price had jumped from 13? to 52? per bu. and total value increased in two years from...