Word: droughts
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...temperatures sizzled above 100°. In other parts of the country grain, vegetables and fruit grew fat and ripe. But there were not enough men, women & children to gather them in, store and process them. The U.S. food supply was running a dangerous race against: 1) drought, 2) manpower troubles...
Have you ever felt, after a long summer drought, the sweet, cool, delicious droplets of the first rain? It's happened Wednesday as 457 little droplets of femininity landed in Wellesley College to start their freshman year. After that comes the heavy downpour, like nectar on the sweated brow. That happens today as Wellesley's upperclass nectarines register for the fall term...
...Petersen contrasts tall, gaunt, brooding Abraham Lincoln with short, broad, bustling Stephen Douglas. He points out that Hippocrates, father of medicine, observed that development of the embryo "is not the same for the same seed in summer as in winter nor in rain as in drought." Douglas, born of a placid, comfortable mother, was conceived during a peaceful Vermont summer, weighed 12 lb. (or more) at birth. He grew up in a snug, warm household, and his roly-poly build helped him withstand the buffetings of the weather. According to Dr. Petersen, the "broad type" is less upset by extremes...
...result, Faulkner points out, is to render the bare soil a ready prey to drought or erosion by rain. Appalled at the damage done by the moldboard plow during its 200-year history, Faulkner observes that with all their machinery U.S. farmers get less yield per acre than Chinese peasants...
...national news again, and this time, good news: the warm June sun had repaired much of the contrary spring's damage. Now that the wheat was at harvest and the corn growing fast, the late freezes and May's disastrous floods were all but forgotten. Barring drought, this would not be a bad year after...