Word: drought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story in America," declares Oren Lee Staley, head of the militant National Farmers Organization and leader of the milk-dumping drive, is the unrest and dissatisfaction of the farmers." Even na ture seems to be conspiring against them. Cutting a wide swath through the southern Great Plains, a serious drought has gravely endangered the winter wheat crop-which accounts for three-fourths of the nation's annual wheat production...
...Indira will be confronted with an unaccustomed problem: owing to her party's poor performance at the polls, she must not only face a powerful opposition in Parliament, but will also be required to deal with governments in six states, including two of India's most severely drought-stricken, that are ruled by opposition parties...
...Wilson will preside over the activities of more than 600 men who daily crowd octagonal trading pits, flailing the air as they shout "Buy!" or "Sell!" The commodities market is immensely complex, and word of a drought in India or a soaking rain on the Dakota plains has an electric effect on futures trading. Even seasoned brokers, whether they deal in grains, soybean oil or steer carcasses, find the trading nerve-racking and treacherous...
...board's new head. He is a man who knows his way not only around commodities, but also Government. Less than a week after his move was announced, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a 3,000,000-ton, Government-subsidized shipment of American wheat and sorghum to drought-stricken India. The plan, proposed by the President and guided through Congress by Wilson, will spur business on the floor of the exchange. Clearly, knowledgeable Washingtonian Wilson, when he takes over in Chicago on June 1, should not have to learn the territory...
...party's setback is a measure of the extent of popular disenchantment with it. In twenty years of undisputed authority, it had failed to tackle India's chronic food shortage and, in the two years before the elections, that shortage had become extremely acute thanks to unprecedented drought in the provinces of Bihar, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh. Prices had been spiralling upwards, essentials of life obtainable only after prolonged and humble striving. Nor could the Congress project hope that the situation would improve after a while. Its performance in the monsoon session of the last Parliament in 1966, was incredibly...