Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Snow, gales and goodbye drought...
...temperatures dropped as low as -25° in Bismarck, N. Dak., and -17° in Minneapolis. But there and in the West, the weather was so bad that it turned out to be good: the rain and snow fell in such massive volume that the worrisome two-year-old drought seemed virtually to be over...
...Bruins, who are leading their division, at this writing several days ago, will be skating against an always-tough Los Angeles Kings tonight at 7:35 p.m. The Kings should be more of a challenge than they were last year when the drought in their state forced them to practice on roller skates. Now when the rain and the ice cometh, the Kings won't have any excuse...
Whether or not they support the strike, farmers are in a fighting mood. Drought has badly hurt many in the Southeast, and two years of bumper harvests around the world have depressed farm prices. The Government estimates that net farm income this year will be $20 billion, down a painful 33% from the alltime high in 1973. The average farm family will earn only $5,300 this year, excluding off-the-farm income. As Washington Rancher Lee McGuire says, "Some farmers are absolutely flat-ass broke." Among the flattest are young farmers who bought their land and machinery...
...Norwegian immigrant, worked as a local banker. As a boy, Sevareid would gaze out a window of the Velva schoolhouse at vast, monotonous fields of wheat and dream of the distant cities pictured in his geography book. He escaped: to Minneapolis, where his family fled when drought hit Velva and where he went to the University of Minnesota; to Europe, where Edward R. Murrow hired him in 1939 for CBS's illustrious wartime team; to Washington, where he was the network's national correspondent and began his commentary on Walter Cronkite's nightly newscast...