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Malard is dead center in the biggest and most cantankerous drought North America has had in 50 years, stretching from California to Georgia, from the Canadian prairies to the Texas plains, withering, parching and shrinking land, crops, rivers, lakes, animals and people. Federal emergencies have been declared in 30 states. Grain farmers in the upper Midwest may lose nearly three-quarters of their crops. There is more trouble to come if the rains don't. On Friday dark storm clouds scudded across the skies over parts of Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, but the squalls soon gave way to the familiar...
...increase in most food prices. With thousands of undernourished cattle and hogs being driven to the slaughterhouse, meat prices may even go down. But trading in the commodity pits of Chicago has been frantic, a new pot of gold for plungers who bet on feast or famine. This cursed drought has brought them a bonanza. Soybeans, for instance, are now selling at about $10 per bu., nearly double the price of just six months ago. God must be a Democrat, somebody muttered near the White House. He surely is showing Ronald Reagan and George Bush, as he did all those...
...military buyers, suppliers and greedy middlemen in one of the largest U. S. cases of white- collar crime. -- House Speaker Jim Wright turns the sleaze issue bipartisan. -- Howard Baker resigns as chief of staff in a White House that seems ready to turn out its lights. -- The worst drought since 1934 withers much of the West, Great Plains and South...
...Dust Bowl yet, but the country's midsection and parts of the South and the Great Plains are suffering through the worst drought since 1934, when farmers in protective masks watched as whole fields of crops simply blew away. Without substantial rainfall soon, Secretary of Agriculture Richard Lyng said, the country's farms could become a national disaster...
...drought is also depleting rivers, lakes and canals, ruining recreation areas and threatening inland transportation. On the Great Lakes, ships are carrying 5% lighter loads. River gridlock has hit the mighty Mississippi. As spring water levels reached their lowest point on record, 1,200 barges were stranded after they ran aground at Greenville, Miss. According to Michael Logue, spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, twice as many barges could become mired this week, creating the aquatic equivalent of a "traffic jam of semitrucks bumper to bumper from New Orleans to Philadelphia...