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...land and the orchards he eventually established. In a life that had been stripped to the bone his qualities were essential, or the homestead and his ambitions would have been lost to the cattlemen, the landgrabbers, or the sands that swept across the country in times of drought...
...when Franklin Delano Roosevelt crossed the continent from West to East, he had to pass through intolerable drought, heat, dust. Last week the uncomfortable feature of his East-to-West journey was the 17th annual convention of the American Legion at St. Louis. At one time the President had tentatively agreed to address the Legionaries. He now had changed his mind. So he arranged his itinerary with formal speaking stops only at Boulder Dam and the San Diego Exposition, after which he planned to go home by way of the Panama Canal on a cruiser. To put the best face...
...have relatively little grain for export, and most of that will go to the Far East. Despite rosy reports on its crop, Russian exports are expected to be light (see p. 19). But the most sudden and surprising upset in the world's wheat trade occurred in Argentina, where drought and locusts cut the prospective harvest nearly 50%. In good Latin American tradition the crop was officially overestimated early in the season, causing no end of embarrassment to Buenos Aires exporting firms which sold for future delivery more grain than the country can spare. Argentina still has wheat from last...
...great plains was releasing numberless tons of soil on the wind and making vast reaches of new desert, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace last spring sent an expedition to the Gobi Desert where, he knew, were sturdy grasses which could outlive extremes of cold and heat and drought. Expedition leader was bald, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, painter, mystic, founder of Manhattan's Roerich Museum, habitué of Central Asia (TIME...
...after five months in the wastelands and some unpleasantness with the Japanese military who thought he was leading a pack of White Russians, Nicholas Roerich appeared in Kweisui, Suiyuan Province, ready to start home, his work done two months ahead of time. With him he brought seeds of 300 drought-resisting grasses, some of which may soon begin to carpet the naked patches...