Word: droughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this center kept moist air over the Gulf of Mexico from spreading, and steered Pacific storms off to the north. As summer wore on, the dry masses sank steadily, becoming compressed and growing warmer.,as they came down. The result: hot, dry weather over most of the country, disastrous drought in sections of 13 states. Last fortnight, the drought breeding weather high was cracked and pushed aside...
...Texas' drought-parched cattle and wheat country, the rainfall averaged more than two inches. In southwestern Missouri's burned-out dairy land, weather stations reported up to an inch. From .5 to 1.5 inches fell across the Great Plains. In New England and down the eastern seaboard to Virginia, the fall averaged two inches...
After the long drought, the rain had a great impact on both man and the creatures of field and stream. During a storm in Oklahoma City, a flock of wild ducks mistook a wet runway at Municipal Airport for a body of water, and some of them cracked up on landing. In the drought-disaster areas, everyone knew that one rain does not break a drought, but farmers and townsfolk alike drew a deep, fresh breath and hoped. The rain was too late to help this year's crops, but in many areas it settled the blowing topsoil, helped...
...although its border was open to most Mexican cattle from September 1952 to May 1953, refused to let the Charolais in because they came from a tick-infested area. So early this year, without a by-your-leave from anyone, Gilly walked the herd across the drought-dried Rio Grande, and Broussard took them by truck to Louisiana...
...representatives of 71,000 North Carolina tobacco growers met last week in Raleigh's Sir Walter Hotel, they filled the air with their troubles as well as tobacco smoke. The drought had hit most of them hard, postponed the harvest a full two months; growers in the state were hustling to get the big leaves into their curing barns before the first frost came. Moreover, the quality of this year's crop had suffered, and prices were down. To Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, the growers sent their suggestion for a cure: acreage allotments for 1954 should...