Word: drought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of the populous Ganges valley, 10,000 villages crumbled and vanished, and farmers shared tree trunks with cobras in the worst floods since 1871. In the coastal state of Orissa, eight rivers thundered simultaneously into spate, killing at least 150, inundating 3,500 sq. mi. of drought-seared cropland. The state's 138 legislators dropped everything and rushed homeward to find out their families' fate...
...Eastern U.S., the dreadful summer of 1955 will be remembered for a long time to come. Beginning in July, the region was withered by drought and a heat wave, the worst on record, with temperatures in the 90s for a large part of the month. The heat wave had hardly ebbed when Hurricane Connie, the first damaging tropical storm of the season, delivered a lethal swipe from South Carolina to Lake Erie, leaving 43 dead. Last week the waterlogged Northeast was stricken with the worst calamity: a record-shattering rainfall and floods which brought destruction to six states...
Even those who accepted the President's explanation were pained at learning that he lent money to Mario Bolanos. Bolanos had reportedly made a lot of money out of the severe corn shortage caused by Central America's spring drought. Back in January, it appeared, Insider Bolanos found out that the government, worried about drought forecasts, planned to lift import duties on corn, Guatemala's basic foodstuff. With a Mexican and two Guatemalans as partners, he set up Comercial Guatemalteca to import corn from Mexico. What with import duties suspended and corn retailing for as much...
...here it was, during the drought and depression years of the '30s, that dry winds seared hopes and dreams while piling the topsoil into dunes of dust. This was the Great Dust Bowl of the north, where thin-coated sheep could be bought for just $2 apiece and craggy-ribbed cows for only $12. "We couldn't raise a thing, not even weeds-not a thing," recalled North Dakota's U.S. Representative Otto Krueger, a dry-land farmer from Fessenden. "I remember it got so bad, with so many people moving out, that one year I counted...
...harvest, prices went down. Cotton sold for about 34? a lb., 11? less than it was four years ago, while wheat sold for less than $2.15 a bushel, off more than 85? in some eight years. Last year, even with parts of the nation suffering from a drought, the Department of Agriculture had to buy $7,198,000,000 worth of surplus commodities under the price-support program. This year, it looked as if the bill would be still higher...