Word: droughts
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Dust-Bowl farmers looked at their sodden fields last week and cursed the rain they had longed for in other years. Drought-scarred Kansas was drenched. The water lay in placid sheets high as the wheat heads. On lowland farms and in valleys the grain stood rotting under the stagnant waste of water left by spring floods...
...municipality dimmed its street lights, even obsolescent stand-by plants went into operation. In Washington there was talk of sending the Normandie (which generates 120,000 kilowatts) to light Mobile. Neither a New Deal plot nor a utilitycoon's mistake, the Southern shortage was an act of God: drought...
From the Mississippi River to the Atlantic, a hot sun blazed down last week out of a cloudless sky. Ever since November, rainfall throughout the East had been far below normal. The drought in Kentucky was the worst since 1889, in Tennessee the worst since 1901. Virginia had not been so parched since the great drought...
Worst feature of the Eastern drought was that it came so early. Unlike the drought of 1930, which came in summer, when most crops were well advanced, 1941's drought caught the seeds before they had a chance to start growing. At week's end clouds hovered over the East, here & there dropping a thin, misty rain. But for many a farmer the damage was done: even a downpour would be too late...
...Some plant injuries blamed on insects, drought, sun scorch, etc., have recently been traced by Stone's successors at Massachusetts State College to sulfur-dioxide leaks from household refrigerators and large refrigerating plants...