Word: droughts
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When it was not flood, it was drought. In the '30s, under scorching, cloudless skies, the fickle river had dwindled while crops withered and some 774,000 people fled the Valley's Dust Bowl...
...when the U.S., shut off from the East Indies, wanted natural rubber at any cost.*Brazil was a possible source. Contracts were signed with the Brazilian Government, which, for $100 a head, agreed to round up and carry workers to the Amazon. Glowing advertisements brought in many a drought-ridden farmer of Brazil's Northeast. Others were shanghaied...
...good wheat, and another bumper crop. Nature had been kind, but she had first tried men's nerves. There had been winter drought, even several dire days of dust storms. Then soaking rains and an abnormally warm March had sprouted the green shoots in a hurry (TIME, April 22). Then there was another dry spell and again the blessed rains, just in time...
Nevertheless, the shiploads exported since Jan. 1 were already twice the total for the whole of an average prewar year, the rate of shipment greater than any in all U.S. history. By July 1, U.S. grain stocks promised to be as low as those in the drought-ridden...
...well thatched and chinked. The Ukraine is Russia's richest agricultural region; in food and housing its peasants now have a living standard "well below that of an Iowa farmer, but well above that of a Southern sharecropper." This spring the planting was 80% of prewar normal, but drought has already almost halved the expected-and desperately needed-1946 crop...