Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada since last February has staged an economic comeback almost equal to that of the U. S. Her bank clearings are 27% ahead of last year, her car-loadings up 7%, her wholesale price index stands at 70.5 as compared to 66.6 a year ago and 63.6 in February. Drought has put her wheat up to 80? (from a low of 50?). Her busy gold mines are working virtually at 100% of capacity, making big profits with gold selling at a handsome premium. Electric power production is up 14%. Her big paper industry has started into renewed activity that parallels...
...Drought grasshoper Dollars
Muddy water was not China's only trouble. Last week word came from Shensi Province in the northwest, drought and famine-ridden for five years, that peasants were taking to cannibalism...
...live stock, water supply, and electric power, plus students' fees. The remainder comes about half from income of invested funds and the rest in the form of annual contributions from friends in Greece and America. Cholera carried off $1,500 worth of pigs last year, and the unprecedented drought this spring probably means the loss of the year's crop. But the School survives such calamities as it has survived revolutions, wars, political crises and earthquakes, and has never had a deficit...
...weather of 1933 will make or break the relief plan. A short cold summer with excessive rainfall or a long blistering drought can reduce crops to such a point that President Roosevelt might have an acute food shortage on his hands. On the other hand an ideal combination of sun & rain can produce such bumper crops as to wipe out all trace of acreage cuts and send prices slumping to even lower levels. One year an acre will produce 12 bu. of wheat, the next 24 bu. Such is the gamble Secretary Wallace must take...