Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tugwell Line. Over a national radio hook-up Undersecretary Rexford Guy Tugwell turned the flammenwerjer of his wrath on those who use Drought as an argument against crop reduction...
...There is something both infantile, obscene and wicked in the eagerness with which the reactionary obscurantists have seized on the great natural calamity of a drought in the entire Northern Hemisphere as a means of destroying or discrediting the will of the American people, as expressed in Congress, for the betterment of agriculture...
...These people would like to abandon the farms, not to the laws of nature, but to the general unfriendliness of speculators. . . . Under their rule they would let the farmer starve; they would let the drought ravage the prairies, and they would tell the farmer that it was just too bad that he was being destroyed. ... By the Agricultural Adjustment Administration there has been established a democratic discipline in agriculture and a co-operative field organization which is on the spot and which, like the Marines, has landed and has the situation in hand...
...previous acreage control measures, we were immediately able to plant feed crops . . . and purchase . . . the herds of drought-stricken cattle. . . . Since there are 7,000,000 head of cattle in the country in excess of the number needed to maintain an adequate meat and milk supply, even this disaster is not unmanageable...
...alone however did AAA depend. It organized every available man for counterattack on "Tory" critics. Over the radio, Assistant AAAdministrator Victor A. Christgau declared that without AAA "farmers would be driven from the land." George E. Farrell, chief of AAA's wheat section, claimed that the coincidence of the drought and AAA's crop reduction program had saved farmers $22,500,000: "When drought comes it doesn't make any difference how many acres you plant. It gets 'em all. It costs about $3 an acre to plant wheat. Farmers left 7,500,000 acres idle to comply with...