Word: droughts
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...Deal but economics and weather saved the potato farmers' shirts. Having taken it on the chin so badly in 1935, growers naturally planted fewer potatoes for 1936. On top of curtailed planting came late killing frosts in the North. In the Southeast a two-month drought has done more than legislation could ever do. Fortnight ago, potato conditions in Georgia were so bad that Governor Eugene Talmadge, a sizable potato grower himself, commanded: "Tell all the preachers to have meetings Sunday afternoon at three o'clock to pray for rain...
...Plains, the inrush of speculators in the wake of the railroads. A homesteader's plow bites into soil held together by the deep roots of prairie grass. Warns a voice: ''Settler, plough at your peril!" A grizzled farmer observes, without comprehending, the first sign of drought. Then comes a Wartime boom in which higher & higher prices are quickly followed by more & more wheat planting until the grass that once bound this country together has given way to endless fields under a parching sun. Finally, to mournful music by Composer Thomson, are shown the ravages of the drifting...
...Governor Landon has stuck to the law's letter. But the enormous myth which GOPartisans have made of his budget-balancing feat may be finally debunked by reflection on the probable state of Kansas' finances if the Federal budget had been balanced since 1933, thus depriving dust, drought and Depression-stricken Kansas of the $400,000,000 of Federal money which has poured in from such sources as RFC, HOLC and FCA loans, AAA checks and Relief...
...slapped her book shut, and sat down in triumph. . . ." While her husband, his zeal and his absentmindedness both increasing, preached his way about the country, Carie stayed home, learned how to be a good housewife, a good mother. Four of her children died without ever seeing the U. S. Drought, floods, pestilence, the Boxer Rebellion, the Chinese Revolution-she lived through them all. Once every seven years she and her family went "home." Less & less of a Protestant with the years, she drifted away from her husband and his God, lived a woman's religion of her own. Says...
...Drought and Depression cost Farmer Campbell $600,000 from 1929 to 1934, cut his wheat plantings to 20,000 acres. They also gave him time to think. Through long Montana winters he saw his expensive machinery and skilled workmen standing idle. Why not, he asked himself, scatter crops in other climates, harvest the year round by sending his machines and men after the sun? Matching his equipment, experience and Government credit rating with outside money, Tom Campbell leased 14,000 fertile, irrigated acres in San Joaquin Valley. When his caravan arrives this week, he plans to begin planting...