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Word: drought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain-producing powers, he is shown with two pots for water, one adorned with corn symbol. Beneath his ojo de serpiente (eye of the snake) headdress, he presents a double aspect: one side still wears the now-muted green of lush cornfields; the other is the weathered brown of drought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NEW WORLD ANTIQUITIES | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...first spectaculars and a barrage of premières fell on TV screens last week like a soggy September drizzle. In Bretaigne Windust's The Lord Don't Play Favorites on NBC's Producers' Showcase, a Kansas hick town was caught in a drought. A bankrupt circus only made matters worse by praying for a dry track on which to run its trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice (with a nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

Prowl for Talent. What is behind the defection? One cause, says Williams, is that many states have been suffering from drought. "Any young man who's been out in that for six or seven years is not going to stay in that kind of business." While farm life seems all "drudgery and hardship," industry is offering beginning salaries to college graduates too tempting to refuse. But the most important factor is that few boys and girls realize that agriculture has become a field that needs highly trained technicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Defection | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...operation of the old law of supply and demand−with overtones of Government action. The Agriculture Marketing Service estimates that farmers will harvest 24% less oats, 3% less corn, 10% less barley, 21% less sorghum grain, 5% less hay than they did in 1955. Main reasons are drought and cold weather, which not only cut yield per acre but also prompted farmers to plow their damaged crops under and join the Federal Government's soil bank. Since the soil-bank plan was inaugurated in late May, more than 10.7 million acres of farmland have been taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Up on the Farm | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

FARM-TRACTOR SALES this year will trail 1955 volume by at least 20%, the industry believes. Falling sales, because of drought and lagging farm income, will force International Harvester Co. to halt production at two plants for at least five weeks, starting Oct. 1. Farm-equipment slump has also prompted merger talks between Chicago's J. I. Case Co., which has shut down two plants, and money-losing Oliver Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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