Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receipts and foreign debt payments due June 15, according to Treasury estimates, will cut it back by about $370,000,000, still leaving the total above the billion-dollar mark, a peacetime record. One Government outlay that did not go over the top was that for Drought relief. Of the $67,000,000 appropriated by Congress, some 400,000 individual farmers had received $47,064,319 up to last week. Arkansas led with $9,292,000. The Department of Agriculture appealed to the Department of Justice for legal help because in some cases a farmer's creditor has tried...
...American Red Cross last week, just before its 50th anniversary, was in the hands of diagnosticians.* Public apathy toward last winter's drive for $10,000,000 for Drought relief and the fierce criticism of the U. S. Senate (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.) made the brains of the organization, Chairman John Barton Payne and his Central Committee, suspect that they did not look well, were systematically deranged, might need a purge...
...figures: a $4,435,029,732 expenditure for the current fiscal year ending June 30; a $4,119,230.649 expenditure for the next fiscal year; $315,799,083 saving to avert a tax increase. The President explained that this year's heavy expenditures were due to emergency outlays for Drought, veterans, Unemployment, Farm Relief. Meanwhile the 1931 deficit passed the $800,000,000 mark...
...months New York City's 6,930,446 citizens have been living under the threat of an acute water famine this summer. The 1930 Drought followed by a mild winter of little snow has halved the normal supply to carry the city through the year. Every little rainfall this spring in the vast Hudson River watershed has made welcome news in the metropolitan Press. Public officials have issued warning after warning. Campaigns (welcomed by plumbers) to repair all leaky faucets have been pressed. Citizens caught sprinkling their lawns or washing down their front sidewalks were liable to arrest. Looming...
This subject (since the American Red Cross had refused succor [TIME, Dec. 10, 1928], and since the U. S. now has its own drought-hunger problems) has become taboo in despatches. Nevertheless 8,000,000 Chinese have starved to death in the present Great Famine (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928 et seq.) and 1,000,000 more soon will starve to death, the China Famine Relief (Manhattan) estimates...