Word: drought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly uncomfortable flu. Miami complained of nagging rain-but 23,026 racing fans braved it on Gulfstream Park's opening day to bet $1,863,447. Texas rejoiced in the recent soaking rains that brightened parched fields with blankets of green and stirred hopes that the seven-year drought might be ending at last...
Shortly before President Eisenhower took off for his flying inspection tour of the drought-parched Southwest in January, Stanley Walker, onetime Manhattan newsman, now a Texas rancher, turned out a dismal preview of the scene for his old newspaper, the New York Herald Tribune (1956 "was the year the windmills pumped air ... the termites ate the onions"). Last week Walker wrote again, this time with refreshing jubilance. Said he in the Trib: "Texas is turning green . . . like some beautiful, bewildering mirage . . . The reaction to the President's drought-study tour was friendly . . . but the comment was cautious . . . And then...
...Drought Relief Proposed...
WASHINGTON, March 5--The Eisenhower administration proposed today that states be required to pay at least 25 per cent of the costs of drought and other farm disaster relief programs...
...most encouraging thing about the film is that for once Hollywood permitted a playwright, N. Richard Nash, to write a screenplay which did no serious damage to his original. Nash has a pleasant story to tell. It concerns a brash, fast-talking confidence man who rides into a drought-stricken prairie town and promises to make rain. And he makes rain, too, but not before teaching a girl on the verge of settling down to becoming an old maid something about the power of faith in dreams. All this, including the symbolism involved, comes dangerously close to banality--but without...