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...power plant at Tacoma, Wash., last winter (TIME, Dec. 2). Central Maine Power officials decided it would be cheaper to float an auxiliary plant up and down the coast than to build, in a scattered territory fed entirely by water power, emergency steam plants for use in time of drought. The Jacona's power installation is a 26,000-h. p. plant capable of producing 20,000 kilowatts...
Winter Crop. Meanwhile the condition of the 1930 winter wheat crop in the southwest, planted last Autumn in abundance when the Farm Relief Act was hopefully new and before the Farm Board had called for acreage cuts, caused a price flurry in the Chicago wheat pit. Drought and hot winds threatened a reduced yield, sent July prices up 10? per bushel. Then came rains over the winter wheat area and quotations slumped back to last week's closing...
...Rejected (39 to 27) a tariff on crude oil. ¶ Passed a bill providing $7,000,000 for farm relief in flood and drought areas...
Leaving the South Seas, the Johnsons reached the Indian Ocean, crossed to Alexandria, went up to the Victoria Nile. Animals now replace the twisted faces of man-eating men. Driven by drought, a procession of game in stretched, incredible battalions passes the tents on the Serengetti plains?first zebras, then hartebeests, buck, cheetahs, gazelles, giraffes, rhinos, wild dogs, all superbly photographed. They stand out in relief as clearly as if they were posed in a studio...
Total crop value: $8,580,528,000, an increase of $84,740,000 over 1928. From 367,082,000 acres harvested, crop yields were 5% below last year's, due to widespread drought...