Word: droughts
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...spite of all his efforts, one stubborn economic fact remained: two years of drought had turned Syria from a land that once exported 159 million Syrian pounds worth of grain a year to one that must now import 50 million pounds worth. Some Syrians, completely forgetting that Egypt itself is perennially one of the world's neediest cases, have begun to demand that Cairo do more to help. But the lack of rain in Nasser's northern province was one thing that even efficient Soldier Amer could do very little about...
...great drought began with a 21-21 tie. In fact, two dry spells marked their origins that fall. On the same day that Brown quarterback Pete Kohut engineered the Bruins to a late-game touchdown that tied the score and took away the Crimson's last taste of victory, the Department of Athletics began its campaign to prevent "obvious violations" of its new no-liquor...
...corn state, expects an 827-million-bu. harvest, up from the record 669 million last year. Illinois, No. 2, anticipates 696 million bu., up from 599 million. Even No. 3. Minnesota, looks for 360 million bu., an increase of 15% over last year, despite a severe drought...
...potatoes too high, the peasants sold their potatoes to the state instead of using them as pig feed, then slaughtered their pigs prematurely, thus sharply reducing the pork supply for 1959. State price fixing produced much the same results with cattle, and on top of all this, a severe drought last summer cut deeply into meager fodder stocks...
Mainland China was having its own troubles with the elements. Peking reported that Honan province was suffering a cruel drought, while at the same time severe rains have flooded much of the Peking area in what the People's Daily calls "a disaster without precedent for some hundred years." Then, added the Chinese, swarms of locusts had moved into Honan, Shantung and Kiangsu provinces, stripping leaves from crops on thousands of acres of farmland...