Word: droughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five years of drought have dried up some 250,000 square miles centering on the Texas-Oklahoma panhandles and stretching into Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. In places the underground water table has dropped below the disastrous levels of the 1930s. The drought has left more than 18 million acres "in condition to blow"; since November alone, dust storms have damaged 7,000,000 acres, and this week another heavy duster blew up. In Colorado 26 counties have already been classified disaster areas...
...little guy is running out of soil and money," warned Conservationist Smith. In Burlington, Colo. Banker Leland Reinecker reported "Most of the farmers lost money last year. Another year of drought will be disastrous." But this time no swarming migration from the dust bowl has developed; most farmers are gritting the dust between their teeth, grimly plowing their land deep with soil-saving techniques and praying for rain...
...single rainy day can restore the water level and end the drought; it takes months and perhaps years. The dust-bowl dwellers, said Editor Fred Betz of Lamar, Colo., "know that the bad has to be taken with the good, and that this will pass and they will still be alive and solvent." A nearby farmer who lost most of his wheat last year and his entire crop last week, muttered: "It's a terrible thing. All we can do is try to hang...
...Issued a proclamation allowing the import of an additional 51 million pounds of peanuts to alleviate a drought-caused shortage that is pinching candy manufacturers...
Luisito, as Uruguayans call Batlle Berres, and his fellow councilors will face grave problems right away. The country's wool is selling well, but its wheat must compete against other countries' surpluses, and its famous herds of cattle have been depleted by drought. The country's left-of-center, welfare-state laws provide subsidies for both wheat farmers and cattlemen, although the public debt is already $387 million-high for a country of only 2,500,000 people. Workers are feeling the pinch of inflation, with prices nearly 2½ times greater than in 1943. Strikes have...