Word: droughts
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...hope of Western Europe feeding herself had vanished. Spring floods and summer drought had reduced Italy's wheat harvest to a little more than two-thirds of what it was last year. Winter killing had ravaged the grain fields of France, Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands. Ironically, the only successful crops in Europe were those planted almost wholly behind the Iron Curtain...
...short-grass country of southwest Oklahoma, the normal pattern of weather is a cruel one for farmers: too much rain at spring-planting time, drought in the growing season, rain again for the harvest. Year after year, cotton, maize and alfalfa crops have either been washed out by floods or ruinously parched...
...Dust Bowl days of the '30s. No rain had fallen, to speak of, all summer. But last week, instead of gloom, there was jubilation in the short-grass country. A $12,000,000 federal reclamation project was formally opened, promising an end, at last, to floods and drought for 50,000 acres of prairie farmland...
...Coleman, Tex., long drought had dried up the town's only lake. Coleman was on the point of importing water by tank car when two local flyers dropped 100 lbs. of dry ice from 18,000 feet, brought a reported 2½-in. rainfall. Next day they tried again, this time produced a 1-in. fall...
William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 77, a limber-tongued front-page regular when he was Oklahoma's tobacco-stained Governor in the early '30s, got some publicity after a long drought. He broke into the New York Times twice: 1) when the paper referred to him as "the late 'Alfalfa Bill'"; 2) when it had to correct itself, admit that he was still alive & kicking...