Word: drought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...River. If it had not been for the blue Columbia River, the Northwest's horde of new people might have seemed dangerously like a liability last week-as incapable of self-support in time of future depression as the dust-bowlers of the '30s in times of drought. But the river-sliding placidly past its deep, black coulees, along leagues of empty sagebrush, through its lovely Cascades Canyon to the sea-seemed to hold the key to real prosperity...
Decontrol of restaurant prices was part of a general tendency to lift price control on food. Last month, when fish in retail stores was decontrolled and fish prices zoomed, housewives refused to buy until fishmongers stopped gouging. Grocers, pleading that last year's drought had made vegetables scarce, put their prices up, and housewives stuck to meat & potatoes, turned away from cauliflower at 2/6, cabbage at a shilling a pound...
...torch in the other, formed endless Holy Week processions. Madrileños also pushed baby carriages loaded with infants, black bread, sausage and wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with white and yellow flowers; trees that had seemed dead last summer were budding again, and water sparkled in stream beds dry for years. But even looking at the unaccustomed softness of the land, Spaniards could not put aside their apprehensions. Their government...
...story follows the fortunes of two English families living on the Zulu veld in South Africa. The Elliots had fled scandal in England; Mrs. Ashburn had brought her family in abortive search of a fortune in cotton. They eke out a poor existence from the wilderness, contending with drought, fever, and the whims of the Zulus, Mrs. Ashburn even resorts to hatching python eggs for spare cash...
...sudden swirl of theatrical plans and promises, no one else even mentioned the original cause of Washington's 19 theaterless months. At some point during the long drought, the main issue seemed to have died...