Word: drought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more to Rusk. As an old China hand who remembered famines that reduced millions of human beings to eating bark, selling their children, or just dying in the streets, Snow found China's material progress since 1949 pretty incredible. Although he was in China during a year of severe drought in some areas and floods in others, he found that an equitable rationing system introduced by the government had virtually eliminated the old problem of starvation. (Actually industrial workers, pregnant women, and children get special dispensation.) Snow personally investigated almost every province in which American journals (which...
...timeworn style, Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung's lieutenants blame drought, hailstorms and insect blights for cutting the ration from a manageable 20.65 ft. in 1957 to its present handkerchief size. But Red China's frayed look also owes much to a deliberate decision by its leaders. "When the bad crops began in 1959," explains one Western expert in Hong Kong, "cotton and cloth was one place where you could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result...
Crowds gathered to hear official speeches of indignation at the attempt on Bourguiba's life. There seemed little doubt that he still held the nation's basic loyalty, but even his closest friends were concerned at the recent signs of unrest caused by three successive years of drought and an unemployment level of 400,000 out of a population...
...mountainous Pacific flank, Chile has one of the world's richest copper deposits, but, apart from minerals, few other natural resources. Copper production is at a record, but prices have dropped and the ore does not bring in as much as it used to. There is drought in the southern farm lands, and Chileans are still repairing the $400 million damage from catastrophic earthquakes 2½ years ago. Chile also shares some of the woes common to most of her neighboring republics-inflation, government deficit spending, and a serious trade imbalance that recently forced the devaluation of Chile...
Shattered. How long New York's news drought would endure depended on the staying powers of the opposing sides. At the Journal-American, Publisher J. Kingsbury Smith was desperate to toss in the towel. "I am proposing here and now," he said, "that President Kennedy or Governor Rockefeller, or New York's Mayor Wagner, or all three, issue a public appeal to the striking workers to agree to a 60-day truce in the strike." Except for this querulous broadside, both sides seemed grimly set on a showdown. "I think it only fair to state." said Amory Bradford...