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...Happened. War's disruption was the main cause. To it nature had added floods in China and French Indo-China, a tidal wave in Madras, drought in Australia, South Africa, Greece and Mexico. Rice as well as wheat was short; but since the four main countries (the U.S., Canada, Australia, Argentina) whose surplus grain might avert famine produced wheat, not rice, the world food crisis was spelled in terms of wheat...
...forecast at 830,636,000 bushels, better by 7,459,000 bushels than last year's bumper yield, higher by 5,000,000 bushels than the previous record crop of 1931. But Department of Agriculture men-not to speak of the always apprehensive farmers-had their fingers crossed. Drought, a heavy hailstorm, prolonged cold could seriously cut the crop. Mid-continent farmers who had escaped the blight of greenbugs that had ruined large acreages in Oklahoma and Texas now prayed for warm days that would bring out the brown-specked ladybugs to chase away the greenbugs...
Suffering in quantity if not in quality, the University's musical activities fell both the drought of manpower and the heavy hand of the Office of Defense Transportation during the war, which factors eliminated the once-important. Spring trips of the Glee Club and the Harvard Orchestra, and forced the latter organization to combine forces with Radcliffe. Just as soon as the situation permits, however, the Harvard Orchestra plans to go its own womanless way again...
Indians and grasshoppers plagued them first; drought and depression periodically blighted their crops and hopes. For many it was a marginal existence...
...Holy Land, about the size of Vermont, is a rundown, beaten-up Southern California. It has a similar climate, with winter rains and summer drought, but it may have better soil. Almost any crop, from barley to bananas, will thrive in Palestine if given proper irrigation...