Word: drouth
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...drouth regions are concerned," he thundered, "no new principle is presented to the American people. . . . Everyone concedes that the conditions in the South are due to what we are prone to call an Act of God. The people . . . have been visited by a drouth which has been as devastating, as cruel and as remorseless as a flood or an earthquake...
...When a drouth occurred in the Volga in Russia we appropriated money to take care of those there in distress. When drouth occurs in the Mississippi Valley we have proposed to make another appropriation...
...doubt if, out of the million and a half people who are afflicted by reason of the drouth, there is a single man or woman who has ever asked a favor of the Government of the United States. How happy they would be if conditions were restored and nature should smile upon them again and they should be able to take care of their own, feed and clothe their own! How happy they would be to be relieved of the humiliation of going to the Government for help...
...Presidcnt Hoover spells it "drought," the Federal Farm Board "drouth," Webster prefers "drought...
...September the farmer pauses an instant in his harvest race against crop-withering frosts, to consider his year. Spring broke tardily everywhere in the U. S. Summer was generally satisfactory, in spite of brief searings of drouth in the central plains and musty weather in the south. At present boll weevils and hopper fleas are damaging the cotton crop to a small extent. In the northwest and in Canada rains worry the prairie farmers, as he prepares to harvest his grains. Elsewhere crop conditions are satisfactory...