Word: drought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope of Western Europe feeding herself had vanished. Spring floods and summer drought had reduced Italy's wheat harvest to a little more than two-thirds of what it was last year. Winter killing had ravaged the grain fields of France, Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands. Ironically, the only successful crops in Europe were those planted almost wholly behind the Iron Curtain...
...short-grass country of southwest Oklahoma, the normal pattern of weather is a cruel one for farmers: too much rain at spring-planting time, drought in the growing season, rain again for the harvest. Year after year, cotton, maize and alfalfa crops have either been washed out by floods or ruinously parched...
...Coleman, Tex., long drought had dried up the town's only lake. Coleman was on the point of importing water by tank car when two local flyers dropped 100 lbs. of dry ice from 18,000 feet, brought a reported 2½-in. rainfall. Next day they tried again, this time produced a 1-in. fall...
...when Premier Thomas C. Douglas' CCF regime came to power, the province's wheat farmers were sitting pretty, netting $20.03 an acre on wheat, and rapidly reducing their debts. But the socialist CCF figured that this was too good to last. It gave the farmers drought insurance by passing a law that no payment on the principal of a farm mortgage need be made in any year when the average yield from wheat acreage fell below $6; in addition, at least 4% must be written off the principal-at the mortgagee's expense. But interest would still...
William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 77, a limber-tongued front-page regular when he was Oklahoma's tobacco-stained Governor in the early '30s, got some publicity after a long drought. He broke into the New York Times twice: 1) when the paper referred to him as "the late 'Alfalfa Bill'"; 2) when it had to correct itself, admit that he was still alive & kicking...