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Within 24 hours the dust was gone again and the storm had passed into dry statistics. But beneath the deceptive electric-blue sky that followed, the haunting problem of drought remained-a problem hanging over an unhappy land, so different from the prosperous U.S. around it that it cares not a whit for the stock market, even less for the talk of parity prices and rigid price supports. The heart of the unhappy land is Edwards Plateau, a sheep-and-cattle-grazing area the size of Maine, in south central Texas. Here, day by day, month by month, through five...
...union has been able, in effect, to keep British bands from performing in the U.S., and the British Ministry of Labor has returned the disfavor. Under the circumstances, the only way English jazz lovers could hear live American jazz at home was to visit U.S. military bases. The drought was so severe that some fans set up special flying excursions to such unlikely jazz centers as Dublin and Brussels. But last week the curtain was lifted in Britain. Stan Kenton's 20-piece band played a concert in London's Albert Hall, where jampacked fans hungrily took...
...Frontier, the rustle of petticoats is fast drowning out the creak of chaps. In last week's show, plucky Beverly Garland, though frail, put-upon and pregnant, drove her weak-spirited menfolk and a herd of cattle more than 600 long miles, through drought, ambush and ennui, from parched Texas to verdant Wyoming. Subsequent Frontier programs will tell of Poker Alice (Joan Vohs), the coolest gambler on the plains, and the Long Road to Tucson will relate the saga of seven nuns on the trail from San Diego to the Arizona territory. So far, Wyatt Earp (starring Hugh...
Times were hard in the little Spanish town of Santisteban del Puerto when young (30) Mayor Agustin Sanchez Lopez-Conesa took office in 1946. For two years straight, a searing drought had scorched the olive groves that were the town's only means of subsistence. More than 700 families were without work or food. "One day," recalls Don Agustin, "I came across the body of a worker, dead from starvation, lying in a ditch by the roadside. That decided it for me. There were too many rich people in my town for the poor to be dying of hunger...
...rain cut last year's crop to 309 million bushels, but exports again fell off sharply. Britain withdrew from the International Wheat Agreement, India and France began to grow more of their own grain as a matter of national policy, and Argentina, bouncing back from a year-long drought, stepped up its sales in Latin America. The U.S., burdened with a giant surplus of its own, made other inroads into the world market through a series of bargain-price sales and disaster-relief gifts to such dollar-shy countries as Italy, Japan and Israel. Canada's traveling wheat...