Word: drought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Help from the South. The Milan fair was an accurate reflection of Italy's growing boom. Gross national product jumped by 5% last, year, even though drought lopped 2 billion tons from the normal 9 billion ton wheat harvest; industrial production was up nearly 10%. Crude-steel production topped 4,000,000 tons and auto production increased to 215,000 cars and trucks, both alltime records. An important new oilfield has been tapped on the Adriatic coast, while Sicily's Ragusa field (TIME, Jan. 25, 1954) has four producing wells, with a fifth...
...took time out for a step that she had overlooked in her busy professional life. She married Texas-born Architect Irving Drought Harris, and started making a home for him and his two children by his earlier marriage (to the late Jean Ferris, granddaughter of California's Sugar King Glaus Spreckels). Designer McCardell did not try to change the tastes of her new husband. Their eleven-room Manhattan apartment is decorated with masculine hunt prints and heavy mahogany furniture...
WINTER-WHEAT FORECAST has the Agriculture Department worried. Estimates are that this year's crop will be down 17% from last year's 790,700,000 bu. and 25% below the ten-year average, largely because of acreage cutbacks and a severe drought in the Texas-Nebraska wheat belt. Agriculture Secretary Benson is afraid that farmers will vote down controls this year, thus kick over high price supports in favor of higher acreage...
...Drought. But by and large, a farmer's prosperity depends on where he lives, and how good a farmer he is. In the drought-parched wheat-producing plains of eastern Colorado and western Kansas, where the moisture level has reached an alltime low, farm income has fallen as much as 75%-Some small farmers have quit and are moving to the cities or the oilfields. Big operators survived by cutting corners: laying off help, patching up equipment, postponing purchases...
...their troubles, last week the Federal Crop Insurance Corp., which has gone $6,000,000 into the red insuring wheat against drought, announced that it was canceling next year's crop insurance in nine dried-out Colorado. Texas and New Mexico counties, covering 3,751 policyholders. Said Farmer George Pittman of Lamar, Colo., who saw his 642 acres of winter wheat blow away this year: "That crop insurance saved me. It was the only security I had in getting a loan. Now the bank has turned me down. I've got nothing...