Word: drought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper's legal advisers prepared a brief after ominous silence from the Justice Department left the issue unclear. CRIMSON Editors had wired Attorney General J. Howard McGrath on the legality of the anti-drought program, and still had no reply by press-time...
...lakes and reservoirs, laid 5,200 miles of mains and pipes to feed the city's hidden lacework of metal capillaries. But World War II, which halted work on a new aqueduct, boosted the city's ever-rising population alarmingly. Last summer's grass-crisping drought did the rest...
However, Bryan emphasized, there is no cause for alarm over the situation, since with the precipitation during winter and spring the reservoirs should be replenished by next Summer. A drought at this time of year is not unnatural, as every fall there is some lack of water. Due to the new reservoir recently constructed in this area, this present drought is not serious...
...York the drought has more serious implications since more water is consumed and there is a lack of reservoir space. However, Bryan is optimistic about the situation everywhere...
Bryan pointed out that in normal years people feel no need to pay higher taxes for improvements in reservoir space. Thus, though cities expand, and therby use more water, the facilities remain the same. However, when a drought appears, the need for more funds is stamped on the taxpayers by talk of a huge water shortage. Bryan believes that though there is a definite shortage at this time, it is not as pressing as would appear. Winter and spring precipitation should, he says, replenish the low supply...