Word: drought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official pamphlet points out with rural pride that it has no large city (Des Moines, the largest, has a population of 185,000). Iowa produces more hogs, poultry, eggs and timothy seed than any other state, and is stung by the fact that in 1955, largely because of drought, it lost first rank as a corn producer to neighboring Illinois...
...Eisenhower upon "a docile, complacent, carefree people all happily chanting 'Peace, Prosperity and Progress-ain't it wonderful.' " Candidate Stevenson obviously felt he had a point: little outward concern was shown by the nation as a whole for the problems of its parts (in drought-dried Holton, Kans. last week 300 people prayed in the courthouse square for rain); nor was there much patent concern for the maneuverings of Egypt's President Nasser, or for the Communist huddles of Khrushchev and Tito beside the faraway Black Sea (see FOREIGN NEWS). The U.S. has learned to live...
Nonetheless, from every hamlet and crossroad, pundits pushed the panic button for Republicans after studying the skies (large parts of Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma and Iowa, as well as Kansas, are suffering from drought) and the statistics (Republicans cringed at an Agriculture Department report last week showing that farm prices had gone down by .5% between mid-August and mid-September). Wrote Columnist Stewart Alsop under a What Cheer, Iowa dateline: "Candidate Eisenhower is in deep, deep trouble in the typical Midwestern farm community which surrounds this small town...
...whose life has been lived in a vast corporation do not see a disaster like the drought as a human problem. They see farms and livestock only as statistics. As a result, relief is grudging and reluctant, too much red tape, too little real help-and always too late . . . Many of you here [at Oklahoma City] today are farmers. You have had particular reason to feel the neglect and the indifference of a big-business administration. For three years the Republican leaders watched farm prices fall with philosophical calm. This is the nice, polite way of saying they did nothing...
Thus, like a shower of rain after years of drought, the six-year exile of Seretse Khama, onetime chieftain of Bechuanaland's Bemangwato tribesmen, came to an end. Seretse had brought the drought on himself by marrying a blonde London typist named Ruth Williams in 1948, to the outrage of all British colonials in Bechuanaland and to large numbers of his own subjects, who, rather than accept a white chieftainess, transferred their allegiance from Seretse to his Uncle Tshekedi. To still the clamor, Britain's Laborite Colonial Office simply plucked the young king from his throne and sentenced...