Word: drought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haman may not win his claim on the clouds as private property, but his maneuver may help to solve a legal puzzle. In many arid regions, such as the U.S. Southwest, rain falls spottily, bringing good crops to some areas and drought to others nearby. Rainmaking with dry ice dropped from airplanes may change the distribution-perhaps in the Rocking F Ranch's favor...
...director of research, "until the legal problems are clarified, there will be great difficulty in carrying out large-scale experimentation." Dr. Suits's suggested remedy: a central organization patterned along the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission. With rainmaking control on a national scale, he thinks, a drought-stricken part of the country could be given real rain relief...
Robert the First. Kleberg the First put the gaunt ranch back on its feet. To combat drought, which periodically killed off thousands of cattle, in 1893 Kleberg drilled the first artesian well in those parts. He built the first of the concrete water troughs for cattle which are now sprinkled around the ranch. He brought in English Shorthorns and Herefords, the railroad (Missouri Pacific), and founded Kingsville. He built the Santa Gertrudis main house...
...animals. In villages near Mildensee some peasants last year were jailed for up to six months for not meeting their grain delivery quotas in full. But we in Mildensee were able to meet our quotas. So they gave us bigger quotas this year. Now we have had drought, and I do not know how we can live...
...first nine months in office, President Miguel Aleman has been visited by a Job-like succession of "acts of God." Foot-&-mouth disease wrecked the cattle industry, grasshoppers stripped the fields of southern Mexico, storms blocked main highways, drought left fields barren and brown. Last week he said: "One of my Cabinet ministers told me that all we needed to make the story of disaster complete was a fire in the Poza Rica oilfields. Pronto a phone rang. I picked it up. It was a man saying Well No. 6 at Poza Rica was afire." Last week, 13 days after...