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...Walls' first crop came in 1936, a year of drought and despair. Iowa was seared by sun and heat. The rivers dried up, the corn wilted, the oats burned into worthlessness. Wall sold the two brood sows for $30 to pay Doc Brinker's bill for delivering Joan, their first baby. Then he went on WPA to earn money for food and interest on the bank loan...
...great American whiskey drought was broken last week. WPB, which has long clouded up with plans to let U.S. distillers resume whiskeymaking, finally promised a drizzle. During the month of August, distillers will be permitted to make whiskey or neutral spirits for blending-for the first time since the October...
...break in the drought was caused by a sudden improvement in the industrial-alcohol supply. For months, WPB has gloomily predicted that the U.S. would fail by some 20,000,000 gallons to meet this year's requirements. The reason: the synthetic-rubber program was swallowing far more alcohol than estimated, mainly because the petroleum process plants were getting into production so slowly (TIME, Feb. 14). But a fortnight ago Rubber Boss Bradley Dewey lopped 20,000,000 gallons off his estimated needs. Barring unexpected war demands, further improvement in the production of rubber-from-petroleum may mean another...
...Regularly irrigate the vast, fertile, but often drought-parched San Joaquin Valley. ¶Supply 1,500,000,000 kilowatt hours annually to northern California's power-hungry industry through five turbines...
...Duncan Norton-Taylor got home to give a finis to his book which every fighter wants as a finis to his war: "... the bus was jammed with a weekend crowd going down to Rehoboth and Ocean City. There had been a long drought and the cedars along the highway were pale with dust blown from the cornfields of Talbot County, Wye Mills, Longwood. It was nighttime and our headlights laid a path along the narrow road which wound around the woods and farms. Easton-Harrison Street. Peg and the girls were standing on the sidewalk in the dim light which...