Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks sporting England has been worried over the drought that frizzled the British Isles this spring. It threatened to spoil the ancient St. Andrews golf course for Britain's No. 1 international sporting event of the year (see below). More distressing, it threatened to parch the turf at ancient Epsom Downs for the nation's No. 1 fiesta, the Derby. With loving care the grass of the irregular horseshoe course was watered every day for ten dry weeks. Then, on the eve of the race, a torrent fell...
Arizona cattlemen had their backs to the wall when Coolidge first knew them. They had been through three years of drought and were being "sheeped" out of existence, as sheepherders brought their huge herds from dried-up northern ranges to graze on land that had been sacred to cattle. Cattle, said the cowboys, spread out in family groups to graze. Sheep followed each other, were bunched by the herder, tramped the range into dust, with the result that the next rain washed off the topsoil instead of bringing up fresh grass. Cattlemen had tried violence, but after a rancher...
...Various Conservative M.P.s representing agricultural constituencies warned that "the British farmer is suffering this spring the gravest drought since 1815 and steps must be taken before it is too late...
Less than one inch of rain had fallen during the past 100 days, and the drought was said to be costing United Kingdom farmers last week $2,500,000 per day. With the grass shortage forcing British farmers to fling unseasonably large flocks of sheep on the Home market, thus threatening to break the price, Conservative Robert Hugh Turton begged His Majesty's Government to "keep overseas sheep off the market...
...agreements do not permit such a course. The situation may greatly improve if there is rain in the next two weeks." All churches in the diocese of Bristol were ordered to offer prayers for rain. Within 48 hours heavy rains doused almost the whole of the British Isles, the drought was called "definitely broken...