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...village headman explained, was Sama's "sacred mountain," and by trying to climb it, the Japanese had angered Sama's gods. That winter, as punishment, the gods had sent an avalanche to level a 300-year-old monastery and had killed three lamas. Then had come a drought and a smallpox epidemic. Worst of all, none of the Sherpa guides or the porters the Japanese had hired were Sama people. When the expedition tried to push ahead, the villagers sharpened their kukris (curved knives) and fingered their piles of yak dung. The Japanese quit, climbed a couple...
...many severely odd Christian offshoots, the Hutterites soon found themselves hounded and on the move. In the 18th century they emigrated to Russia, in the 19th to the U.S. In 1918 their antiwar sentiments got them chased out of South Dakota to Canada, but in the early 1930s drought hit South Dakota; South Dakota farmers left the state in droves, and the Hutterites were invited back...
Every now and then somebody from another part of the country wants to know why Texas cattlemen are in bad shape financially when they made so much money during the war boom. Your April 23 story should give them the answer. Those of us who are sticking this drought out are not looking for shoulders to cry on. Your article does help the rest of the country to know about conditions; it might even help to buck up farmers and ranchers who have had good rains and good crops but are complaining about the plight of agriculture. Maybe some...
...five years the child was batted back and forth from family to family. In all, she lived with twelve families, all poor. Once she was "sent back" because she made the lady nervous. Once she was happy with a goodhearted woman named Ana Lower. Once she lived in a drought area with a family of seven people; they all bathed once a week in the same tub of water, and the "orphan girl" was always the last one in the tub. There was always the dry bread, the army cot by the water heater, the monthly visit from the county...
Wilhelm runs 650 sheep and 51 head of cattle on his four sections and another thousand acres of rented pasture land, a spread that would normally carry from 1,000 to 1,100 sheep and from 125 to 150 cattle. When the drought took hold in earnest back in 1950, Wilhelm played it smarter than some of his neighbors, sold off his herds to prevent overgrazing, used the cash to buy feed for the animals he kept. Today it costs him a money-losing $12 a year to feed each cow, $2 to feed each sheep...