Word: droughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flash of a powder train, the uproar spread to South America. The Brazilian government, alarmed by the angry murmuring in America del Norte, hurriedly invited four U.S. housewives to travel south, all expenses paid, to see for themselves the real cause of the trouble-scarcity caused by drought, frost and underplanting by Brazilian farmers. A spokesman from Colombia talked darkly of a plot by the "tea interests," and one from El Salvador advised the U.S. to quit demanding nickel coffee until it resumed making $1,000 automobiles...
...move which cost Shivers more support than any other was his independent stand during last summers critical drought. Instead of requesting federal aid immediately, Shivers told the state's ranchers that federal relief would mean federal interference, and that they should "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps." It took heaps of dying cattle lying on the parched plains to convince him of his political blunder, and when he did request federal aid, it was almost too late...
While farm prices dropped 10% and farm income 7% (to $13 billion), it was still the seventh best year for farmers-and they were a long way from disaster. One cattleman, for example, who went to Washington to plead for support prices for beef, said that the drought and falling prices had caused him to lose $100,000 in 1953; if that went on for another three or four years, said he, he would be broke...
Weatherwise, the year which just ended was an outstanding one in at least three respects. It was as warm as any one on record in Cambridge. Also, it accomplished the almost phenomenal feat of being the second wettest year and at the same time delivering a crippling drought...
...Bilbao. Governor Riestra got a welcome assist from the unpredictable Spanish climate. Heavy rains broke the months-old drought; hydroelectric stations started humming. Workers recently laid off went back to their jobs-but not at Euskalduna. The steel plant's blustering, belligerent manager, Elisardo Bilbao, an employer misplaced from the 19th century, posted a notice in the Plaza de la Misericordia. It said: all those who struck are fired...