Word: drought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more: slum clearance, old age and unemployment insurance, aid for the blind and crippled, the public works program (both PWA and WPA), minimum wages and maximum hours, the CCC and NYA, abolition of child labor, the break-up of utility monopolies, TVA and REA, flood control, water conservation and drought relief, crop insurance and the ever-normal granary...
Whether or not they were affected by this affecting farewell, the public and William Drought Cox's few friends in baseball were virtually unanimous: the ex-owner of the Phillies was wrong; the rule was right; organized baseball was harsh but just in barring him from the game forever. Cox's crime: he had made "a few small and sentimental bets on my team...
...drought was really on: The cloakroom of the U.S. Senate rumbled with such eloquent outrage over the dry spell that Nevada's balding James Scrugham (successor to the late Key Pittman) asked the Judiciary Committee to find the causes of hoarded, high-priced, hard-to-find spirits. Said Senator Scrugham, plaintively: "I have made some personal investigation of this matter...
...strictly criminal, gun-toting aspects of 'the new "creeping Prohibition" are minor phases of the drought. The main area is in violations of OPA regulations...
Here to Stay. If all these suspicions turn out to be right, a bit more whiskey may turn up on retailers' shelves next year. But, though today's drought may be slightly exaggerated, the whiskey shortage is here for the duration...