Word: droughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grande's basic trouble is a prolonged, three-year drought along its vast watershed, on the east side of the Rockies. Lower valley residents,unable to do much about the weather, angrily blamed upstream dams and irrigation pumpers. Downstream pumping for irrigation has been rationed for 15 months; the crops, livelihood of 670,000 Texans and Mexicans, are fast withering away. This week upstream farmers agreed to cut down on pumping, and a thin trickle of water appeared at Laredo. But it didn't change things much. "The valley," says Brownsville Judge Oscar Dancy, "has its back...
...jobs, while they pay more and more for everything from meat to movie tickets. But it is still fairly common to see a day laborer broiling his lunch-a thick, juicy steak the size of a dinner plate-over a fire in his wheelbarrow. After two bad drought years, farmers last year harvested a fine, 7.8 million-ton wheat crop. After a year of tasteless, sandy-colored bread adulterated with birdseed, Argentines are again eating white bread...
Last month, with drought searing Mexico and spring crops ripening in the U.S., the patrolmen caught an army of 73,176 along the 1,700-mile border. All were escorted back across the line. But for every one who was caught, at least one, and probably more, safely got past the patrols. This week the wetbacks were seeping across the border at a record-breaking rate-two a minute, day & night. "Like ants," said Chief Patrol Inspector Ed Parker. "They're swarming over the desert like ants...
...government's promises, food costs were 27% more than a year ago; within the week, the price of rice had nearly doubled because the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul had suddenly embargoed shipments to avert a shortage of its own. Electric-power rationing caused by drought had shortened factory hours and thus cut take-home...
...beginning of Mamie's real education - and of a rambling, catch-as-catch-can existence which only an Army wife who remembers the appropriations drought between the two world wars could really appreciate. The cubbyhole at Fort Sam was only the first of some 20 different quarters which Mamie has occupied in the decades since; she learned to clean, decorate, move out; to clean and decorate again; to pay bills and dress on Army pay ; and to catch yet another train...