Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were harvested in the bumper year of 1931, this year's crop was forecast at 458,000,000 bu., a drop of 42%. The Great Plains had had a dry autumn, a dry winter, a dry spring. Planters were abandoning their winter wheat acreage in the face of drought. The economic consequences of last year's overproduction probably had more to do with a reduced yield than the Farm Board's pleas to cut acreage. July wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade began the week at 58? per bu.- 3¢ below last year...
...into the mud, began to breathe with lungs, explains Joel. Next natural development would have been for it to be able to crawl out on land, but the lungfish never got that far. The only benefit it got from its lungs was the ability to live through periods of drought. Encysted in sun-baked mud it could live on air and its own tissues for months, even for years. From the papyrus roots of Lake Victoria Joel two years prior had collected specimens of the fish, called Kamongo by the blacks. Now he is taking more of them, packed...
Gloom descended on U. S. gunners last year when the Government cut the wild-fowling season down to 30 days (TIME, Sept. 7). The Government's unanswerable reason was that Drought had decimated the flocks in their northern breeding grounds. Sportsmen, fearful lest a temporary measure for conservation be transformed by sentimentalists into a permanent prohibition, held long discussions, seeking a positive remedy which would bring back the birds and the long shooting season (in most States three months...
...many shooters to doubt that a shortage existed. Bureau agents found such concentrations in Florida's "panhandle" district, in the Crane Lake area of Illinois, along Missouri's Sheridan River. Southern California's flight, usually 40 miles wide, was ten miles last year. Little affected by Drought were areas on Puget Sound, the Columbia River, the Susquehanna flats, and Long Island. Last year's curtailed season, believed to have reduced the kill from nearly 18 to seven million birds, may result in a longer season next autumn, but this is doubtful. This year the Department...
...With President Hoover's approval 14 carloads of Government-owned wheat rumbled out of Omaha for South Dakota -first batch of 5,000,000 bu. to be distributed there free to the needy by the Red Cross. The railroads handled the consignment gratis. Drought and grasshoppers necessitated this Federal relief...