Word: drought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most of Amerika's clear, simple stories are told in terms of "average Americans," avoid controversial personalities and political issues that might roil the Kremlin-or Congress. Not long after Amerika had stirred up such a storm on Capitol Hill by suggesting that the Midwest was poor and drought-stricken, slim, brunette Editor Marion Sanders, 43, took over. Since then, Amerika has provoked no senatorial tempers. Welles-ley-educated Mrs. Sanders is a doctor's wife and mother of two college-age youngsters. She knows no Russian and has never visited the U.S.S.R.; Moscow cold-shouldered her request...
...past twelvemonth the nation's psychological climate had changed significantly. A bustle of hopeful activity hummed up & down Petrarch', "fair land which Apennines cut in twain "' seas and Alps surround." After a worrisome winter drought, the cypress groves of Tuscany and the rocky pastures of the south were turning a promising green under welcome rains. Along the Via Appia, middle-class families spread picnic lunches of bread, salami and strong red wine. From Venice to Capri hotels and restaurants looked forward to a season of 2,000,000 tourists, bringing American dollars and British pounds. The springtime...
...Severe drought in the Southwest which made deserts of range country...
...apparently hoped that the supply of free grain would soon be exhausted, and that grain prices would then hold steady. But that was only a hope. The supply of free wheat alone on Jan. 1 was 514 million bushels-more than the U.S. normally eats in a year. Barring drought, the U.S. would probably have another bumper wheat crop, which could run the carryover to 600 million bushels in 1950. And Argentina and Australia already had so much wheat that they were cutting export prices...
...soft-voiced natives of Bikini Atoll did not see the two terrible explosions that took place there in 1946. They had been taken by the U.S. Navy to another island called Rongerik. They did not like Rongerik. The fishing was not good; there was not enough fresh water; drought had decimated the coconuts...