Word: drought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern California got relief from its worst drought in 70 years. After 47 clear, dry days, heavy rain swept the state from Santa Barbara to the Imperial Valley...
Even California was nipped. A heavy frost destroyed the coastal squash crop. In the back-country hills of Southern California, temperatures fell low enough to put icicles on avocado and citrus groves. Citrus crops were even harder hit by a continuing drought, now so severe that some communities were rationing water...
Gottfried Haberler, Warburg Professor of Economics, predicted that prices would probably be up again shortly, mainly because of the wheat drought and proposed lower taxes...
Despite the mass killing of war, the world's population had swelled by 8% since 1939 (nearly 200 million more people), but world food production had dropped by 7%. Because of last summer's drought, Europe's grain crop was 8,000,000 tons below last year's. Shipments from the great North American granary will be 2,300,000 tons less in this "cropyear" (ending July 1, 1948) than in the previous year...
Disturbing Echoes. In the early 1930s Roerich was at the pinnacle of worldly fame as painter and poet, Asiatic explorer, archeologist and mystic philosopher. In 1934, Admirer Henry Wallace, then Secretary of Agriculture, sent Roerich and his son George, an Orientalist, to the Gobi Desert, to collect drought-resisting grasses for the U.S. dust bowl. As the serene man who was used to being called "Master" moved through Asia, disturbing echoes reached the U.S. In Manchukuo the Japanese thought he was a Russian agent. The Russians thought he was a Japanese spy. The Chinese thought...