Word: drought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breeder still brings the buoyant spirit of religious revival to the Khrushchevian task of boosting yields. Sunburnt and dust-covered, he travels the vast land, bawls orders to the peasants in his hoarse, high-pitched voice: "Keep the weeds down." "Put on more manure." "Thin out in case of drought." Khrushchev, another peasant's son from the Ukraine, understands and appreciates that kind of talk. Lysenko tells virgin land pioneers not to plow their land in the fall but to plant their grain amidst the snow-catching stubble, advises Volga farmers to increase their crop by cutting their seed...
Reeling on, Podgorny tried to say that drought compelled many districts to cut corn before the ears formed. Again Khrushchev struck: "But that can't be, because if you can see that the ears won't head out, you know it is no good for fodder either, because it has already withered." Podgorny: "Yes, that must have been an excuse to cut the corn...
...Canadian nickel went to Red China via Hong Kong, and Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. shipped another 1,039,800 Ibs. to China directly, boosting Canada's 1960 China trade to $20 million. But in view of China's calamitous crop losses to flood and drought, Ottawa is still betting on a major wheat sale to China -the first since Trader Liu placed a $7,000,000 wheat order...
...known. Last week Radio Peking reported that a total of 148 million acres, or more than half Red China's cultivated land, had been affected to some degree. For 40 days the lower stream of the great Yellow River itself was dried up almost completely. Because of the drought, four provinces in the Yellow River valley were virtually without water for periods ranging from seven to twelve months. In some areas the harvests failed totally...
...Western observers are convinced that drought and floods can be blamed for the shortages. They point out that Japanese weather reports show little unusual weather over China during the year, suspect that the "natural calamities" may have been invented or exaggerated by Red propagandists to account for a shortage of food really attributable to the Communist regime's drive to siphon off food for export abroad to pay for the machines and supplies needed to build up Red China's industry. One U.S. expert said the 1960 crop may actually have been "a little bit ahead...