Word: droughts
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...drought last week had Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds more worried than any farmer. In the Southeast, electricity depends on water power, and many a rapidly expanding defense industry (aluminum, ferroalloys, etc.) depends on electricity. But the year's rainfall in the Southeast was 50% below normal. The water level in some of TVA's reservoirs was down 60%. Olds made a quick estimate: the drought meant a 1,000,000-kilowatt power shortage in the Southeast before year...
...sponsored part of Miss Hawley's work to learn about past cycles of drought and deluge revealed in the old trees in order to learn about future problems in harnessing a great watershed. Federal entomologists were interested because weather cycles affect the number of insect pests which they may have to fight. Meteorologists welcome the tree-ring studies because weather forecasts derive in part from elaborate past data. And archeologists can read history in tree rings: Douglass, for example, showed that the dreadful drought which started the decline of the high culture of the Pueblo Indians began...
...veterans but two 22-year-olds: Harold ("Peewee") Reese and Harold ("Pete") Reiser. Reese, purchased from the Louisville Colonels last year (but benched with a chipped heel bone a good part of the season), is considered one of the smartest shortstops in the game. Reiser (rhymes with geezer) Drought up from Brooklyn's Elmira farm last summer, can play infield or outfield, nor does his bat sleep in his hand...
...Best earnings news came not from a defense-plump Eastern road but from grain-carrying, often drought-beset Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. In August 1938 Atchison broke a 38-year precedent by failing to pay a preferred dividend. Last fortnight its common made the news. To the surprise of Wall Street dopesters who had expected nothing from its nine month's profits of only 11? a share, Atchison declared its first common dividend ($1) since 1937. Conservative Atchison directors never pay common dividends unless business is good. The dividend was taken as a sign of better times...
...golden era of 1926-29 the first two years saw Crimson defeats, 12 to 7, and 14 to 0. Finally, in 1928 after five barren years, Harvard came into its own, breaking the drought by laterals executed by the Dave Guarnaccia-Art French combine. The year of the depression saw Albie Booth's strip tease as the "mighty mite" stormed onto the field unsuccessfully to attempt a field goal. Harvard won 10 to 6. Barry Wood and Captain Ben Ticknor made it three straight for the Crimson in 1930 with a 13 to 0 victory...