Word: droughts
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...llanos, that stretch from the Caribbean coastal Andes southward to the jungles of the Orinoco, the rains had ceased. Now, where the sparse cattle had been herded from hummock to hummock by boat, the floods would subside. Now the earth would crack and parch through six months of drought...
Source of the drought was a break reported one o'clock yesterday morning in the sixteen inch main on Lakeview Avenue in North Cambridge. With a crew from the Cambridge water department working steadily since its discovery, the rent had not been patched last night and it was not anticipated that service would be restored through the main until some time this evening...
...view of drought . . . and the diminishing of state food reserves," said Radio Moscow, the Russian Government will "abolish the rationing system in 1947 instead...
...miracle worked by sun, soil, rain and the hardworking U.S. farmer was almost awesome. For four years of war, despite woeful manpower shortages and the hazards of frost, drought, insects and disease, the nation's farms had produced bumper crops with machine-like regularity. Now, in defiance of the odds, the land was heavy with crops once more. They were so prodigally good that the U.S. would be able to go on feeding half a world and still provide bigger meals for the dining-room tables of its own wellfed people...
...million bushel wheat harvest, which would reduce her import needs from 70 million bushels in 1946 to a mere 20 million in 1947. Greece, Spain and Portugal hoped to raise grain production to approach their prewar levels. South Africa and Australia were expanding their wheat acreages. Argentina, drought-stricken last year, reported favorable crop conditions...