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...refute the popular impression that farmers were better off than industry in 1937, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace offered a set of statistics: "The 1937 production of 53 crops was 13% greater than the 1929 production and 40% greater than the 1936 production, which was considerably curtailed by drought. The effect of this increase in the face of declining business activity and urban purchasing power has been a sharp drop in farm prices. Since December 1936 they have shrunk from 126% of the pre-War level to 104% of the pre-War level. The present level of farm prices...
...America's farmers," said a United Press dispatch from Washington last week, "need not worry about another serious drought until 1975." Reason: Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot...
...even more important cycle of 46 years. Matching the cycles with actual weather records has provided, he declares, partial confirmation. Testifying last week on the Smithsonian's budget needs before a House appropriations subcommittee, he gave it as his opinion that the U. S. is emerging from a drought period which began about...
...believe, on the very verge of recovery from the drought of the last 46-year period," said Dr. Abbot. "We have no expectation of another one of such great consequence until 1975, although . . . there will be a minor one during the decade...
Briefly the snow problem consists of an inability to get rid of the snow in the winter and an inability to find any in the spring. Now begins the time of clogged streets and downed telephone wires. All too soon come the days of flood followed by those of drought...