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Slapped, Ellis Arnall sounded another warning. The drought in Southern and Eastern states, said the former governor of Georgia, will cause food prices to "skyrocket." His lips were hardly closed before bald Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan baldly contradicted him. Said Brannan: The drought will not drive food prices up; its most serious impact has not been on food crops...
...Department of Agriculture-merely applying the law and using the taxpayers' money-was able to remind farmers that the Democratic Party wouldn't let even nature "take it away." The surprising paradox is that the "ins" are able simultaneously to garner political credits from a disastrous drought in some parts of the U.S., and bumper harvests in others...
Prompt Delivery. The drought parched the South from the brown grazing lands of Texas eastward through Dixie's corn, tobacco and (less seriously) cotton. It seared the Southeast's new livestock pasturage. It left scattered scars in the Midwest, and on wide areas of New England...
Prices were also going up in other fields. Food prices jumped more than 1% in a fortnight to an alltime high; and the drought (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would probably send them higher. In the textile industry, mills operating at half speed only a few months ago were close to capacity, and prices of such items as acetate rayon yarns were boosted last week...
...evident in the famed opening lines (usually as much as anyone remembers of the Tales)-Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote-which Coghill deftly turns thus: When the sweet showers, of April fall and shoot/ Down through the drought of March to pierce the root...