Word: droughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arizona last week, Phoenix Weatherman J. R. Jurwitz asked, "Why can't God give us some of that Missouri water?" Residents looked up at smoke-hazed skies and prayed for rain. Drought is now in its tenth year of creeping paralysis. Forest fires burned 26,450 Arizona acres in June and are roaring on. (New Mexico, Washington, Oregon and California also had drought-born forest fires.) "It's so dry, a hot breath could start a fire," said one ranger...
...Joaquin at Mendota Pool. Then it will run down the San Joaquin, irrigating downstream lands. The payoff comes at the extreme southern end of the Central Valley. Friant Dam will divert San Joaquin water that would otherwise be needed downstream and send it through a 153-mile canal to drought-plagued Bakersfield. No Sacramento water will actually get to Bakersfield, but the effect will be just the same. As the bureaumen put it: "The rain will move 500 miles south...
With the exam period diamond drought at an end, the varsity baseball team will romp on Soldiers Field grass again at 3 p.m. Thursday with Boston College as an opponent and then move west to meet Williams at 3 p.m. Saturday...
...from India's Ministry of Food and Agriculture, was on his way home from Peking last week after concluding a deal whereby half-starving China agreed to sell famine-ridden India some 500,000 tons of milo and rice (although China could ill afford the gesture-floods and drought had destroyed 20 million acres of Chinese crops...
Trouble in the West. While the fight raged in Washington, more troubles were piling up for Mike Di Salle in the West. Feeders, who bring the cattle from the range and fatten them for slaughter, were threatening to stop feeding entirely. Furthermore, the severest drought in 30 years had forced Texas ranchers to hurry their cattle out of the state for pasturing much earlier than usual. With good pasture land filled up, many an animal will have to be slaughtered before it is properly fattened...