Word: drought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weaknesses of the U.S., a TIME correspondent drove into California's San Joaquin Valley to bring up to date a story of fault and weakness that fascinated the pundits 25 years ago. His question: Whatever happened to the Okies-the thousands of desperate farm families that fled drought and Depression and swarmed into California in the 1930s? The answer turned out to be a story of adversity that turned to strength for both a migrant people and a region of fabulous fertility. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Harvesters...
...time was the early 1930s. Dust-parched, drought-wrung, a steady caravan of humans clattered west over U.S. 66. Piled high in antiquated jalopies and steaming trucks were the precious things of their lives: children, a tacky mattress or two, tattered blankets, a stick of old furniture, cooking utensils, a flap of canvas. Behind them, in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, lay the dead land of the drought. Ahead, at the end of the road of flight: California, the rich, full, well-watered San Joaquin Valley, where vast orchards and fields seemed magically alive with grapes, potatoes, peaches, cotton. Those were...
BEEF PRICES will go up next year because supplies will head down. In Texas, beef on the hoof is selling for 14¾? a Ib. v. 9⅓½?a year ago; cattle raisers are holding cows off market to replenish their drought-thinned herds, but it will take them several years to do so. Result: beef output will slip from 83 Ibs. per capita this year to 81 Ibs. in 1958, only...
...cruel coincidence, nature has dealt India a brutal blow. Across the north-central farm belt in recent weeks some 4,000,000 tons of grain have been lost in the worst drought to hit India since 1951. Just to keep the 25 million people in the drought area alive, India will have to import an additional 2,000,000 tons of grain, at an estimated cost of another $100 million in foreign exchange...
...wake of the country's worst combination of floods, drought and famine in nearly a decade, Communist administrators had taken to including sweet potatoes in weighing out the daily pound of rice. Farmers, with a bitterness that only a Chinese can fully appreciate, had coined a saying: "Sweet potatoes and noodles are the rice of socialism...