Word: droughts
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After that it was a long drought as Crimson supporters waited for their next runner to finish. It was another three minutes before John Ogden trooped in in 26th, followed by Hewlett one place back. Langdon Burwell rounded out the top five for Harvard, coming in 31st...
...personal financial problems. Aides further explained that his salary of $22,500 was only a little more than half of his former salary as bank president. He maintained large homes in both Washington and Texas. The two Texas cattle ranches he operates with a brother were badly hurt by drought. A son and daughter in college added to his expenses. Korth had to sell 5,000 of his 5,200 shares of Continental National stock last June to meet his debts, even borrowed $10,000 from his mother...
WHEREAS: Kentucky bluegrass is a beautiful deep green color. Extremely hearty (sic). Withstands winter freeze and summer drought if allowed healthy start--Montgomery Ward Catalog...
...Russians apparently need wheat to make up for crop shortages, both in the Ukraine, suffering from scorching drought, and in Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious "virgin-lands" development scheme in Soviet Asia. Canadian Agriculture Minister Harry Hays returned from an 18-day trip behind the Iron Curtain to report that Russians insistently asked what Canadians did about drought and dust. On his recent Russian journey, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman went through the Ukraine but was permitted to travel only to the fringe of the virgin-lands...
...First Spark. To blame was the state's eight-month drought, which has turned the southern part of Brazil-from the Uruguayan border to Rio-into a tinderbox. All it took was some farmers burning off their land for the next planting, cigarettes carelessly flicked away, campfires not quite snuffed out, or a spark from an old coal-burning locomotive. What started as a few scattered blazes soon blew in to hundreds of fires, then thousands...