Word: drought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likes to don a wide-brimmed straw hat, peel off his starched green uniform shirt, and work up a good sweat by chopping away in the sugar-cane fields. Last week he had some hardly reassuring words for his fellow cane workers struggling to get in Cuba's drought-blighted and sorely mismanaged sugar crop. Conditions in Cuba will surely change for the better, said Fidel, "in ten or twelve years...
...that 87% of the area consists of parched, brown sertāo, a rolling hinterland matted with cactus-tough scrub where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns in search of food...
...home consumption are projected at a record 1.1 billion bu. of wheat, oats and barley, well over the decade's average annual production of 994 million bu. Farmers will probably increase planted acreage by 5% to 10%. But last year grain production was almost halved by the worst drought since the dust-bowl '30s and by a savage invasion of grasshoppers. Already this season, subsoil moisture is at "critically low levels," and as May planting begins, all depends on the arrival of what the farmers call "million-dollar rains" before June. "Hamilton sure has sold grain," a Saskatchewan...
...halt in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The dust-covered tarpaulin was pulled away, and out of this one truck climbed 40-odd men, women and children - sunburned, dirty and ragged under wide-brimmed straw hats. At the end of a ten-day trek from Brazil's drought-afflicted Northeast, they shouldered their clothes bundles and started out for one of the 300 hillside favelas (slums) that are home for almost 1,000,000 cariocas. Said one new arrival, the father of four: "God will help us. We will get jobs." Throughout most of Latin America, there...
...month, and this gift was likely to be fresher in mind. Western farmers, grateful to the Tories for selling of $228 million in surplus grain to Red China, are in a better mood now than they are apt to be after the summer's expected drought. And by fall, if Britain joins the European Common Market, Canada may lose its low Commonwealth tariffs on its $900 mil lion exports to Britain, bringing trouble to Canadian export industries...