Word: droughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control rainmakers. Most fervent witness in favor of prompt control was Robert McKinney, chairman of the New Mexico Economic Development Commission. Most of New Mexico, he said, is infested with fly-by-night commercial rainmakers who seed the sky irresponsibly with large amounts of silver iodide. Hired by drought-plagued ranchers and farmers, they are making lots of money, but their clumsy, uncoordinated efforts are producing little rain. Experts have often pointed out that too much silver iodide may prevent rain instead of causing...
Against this array, Tito has a tough army of 600,000 men. But his country was hit hard by last year's drought. Political concessions made to Yugoslavia's restless population may have weakened his hold on his own Party machine...
Arizona. After 114 days without rain, Arizona was enduring one of the longest droughts in state history. Water holes and rivers had gone dry, ranges were dust, cattle herds were being shipped north or sold. The drought belt extended east to New Mexico and central Texas. In some Texas saloons, tin cups were put by the cash registers to collect funds for professional rainmakers. Oldtimers glumly compared conditions to the famous drought of 1903-04, when a man could cross the Verde River over the carcasses of dead cattle and never touch foot to the dry riverbed...
...Court of St. James's Lewis Douglas, boss of one cowhand, a string of horses and 400 head of cattle, felt well enough to take on a community job. Cattle-raising neighbors elected him chairman of their rainmaking committee, then hired a California rainmaker to help break the drought...
Madrid was blacked out last week, victim of Spain's worst drought in five years. With her hydroelectric reserves down to less than 5% of capacity, the capital's factories were reduced to a nine-hour work week. Offices shooed workers home early on streetcars and subways that barely moved for lack of power. Women queued up at public fountains for water (turned off ten hours each day in homes). In shop windows and coffeehouses candles and oil lamps replaced light bulbs and neon signs. Movies were limited to one show daily. While helpless officials talked of building...