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With the news that a citizen of Salt Lake, Utah, has decided it would be a good thing to settle the flood and drought problem through the production of artificial glaciers, the issue of what to do with snow again comes squarely before the American public, from the loftiest to the lowliest, the wisest to the dullest citizen...
Texas' Senator Tom Connally: "If the Senator from Michigan will tell . . . when it is going to rain and when the sun is going to shine and when we are going to have a drought...
...shallow tanks of nutrient solution, Dr. Gericke has grown tomatoes, potatoes, corn, beans, gladioli, begonias, dozens of other plants and vegetables-free from drought, disease, insects, floods, erosion (TIME, March 1). In a tank of 1,100 of an acre area he grew 1,226 Ib. of lush red tomatoes. His giant tobacco plants are especially impressive (see cut). From 25 sq. ft. of water he got 100 cantaloupes, declared this to be 20 times the yield expected from soil. Pushing against the roof of his greenhouse, with its massive roots in water, is an 18-ft. banana plant...
...youthful, steady-going Ote Mortimer, glad to get back South after a Depression which landed him in a Detroit automobile factory, proves that a sharecropper can still raise a paying crop, can keep from degenerating, enjoy pleasant relations with his landlord and his girl-Depression, drought and Erskine Caldwell notwithstanding. It is only when his desperately squeezed landlord cannot pay him enough to settle down to a normal married life that his girl runs off with a bootlegger and he smashes in Landlord Allard's head with a singletree...
Before Depression the volume of new capital that poured into industry was a torrent. Then it dwindled to a trickle. The figures on the prolonged drought in new financing...