Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week farmers in ten Midwestern States had sand in their beards, in their hair, in their ears, in their eyes, in their mouths, in their pockets, in their pants, in their boots, in their milk, coffee, soup and stew. Dust poured through the cracks in farmhouse walls, under the doors, down the chimneys. In northwest Oklahoma a hundred families fled their homes. Every school in Baca County, Colo, was closed. In Texas the windswept hayfields were alive with blinded sparrows. Methodist congregations in Guymon, Okla. met three times a day to pray for rain._ Originally confined...
...Then a tremendous tragedy happened around 1900. It was worse than the last dust storm because it covered the whole country. Some men thought that they could make money out of handwriting, and they published copybooks with a stylized, vertical Germanic script, which were adopted in every school in the country. Every teacher had to learn the method, which consisted of slow, laborious finger movements. It used to take a child half an hour to write the same amount that he can now put out in three minutes...
Last week out of the black cloud of dust which still hung over drought-stricken Kansas, Governor Alfred Mossman ("Alf") Landon sped to Washington to see about $500,000 worth of free gasoline from FERA to power 200,000 tractors to plough furrows to stop the ravages of Kansas' winds. While he was getting his gasoline he stopped long enough to mention that in May the Republicans of ten Midwestern States were planning to convene and write a platform for a bigger, better, sounder and more liberal G. O. P. Head of the resolutions committee at this meeting would...
...Group Theatre has been social-minded ever since its inception in 1931. To put on a theatrical fireball which was too hot for it to handle officially, the Theatre Guild in 1929-30 employed a subsidiary, the Guild Studio, to do Red Dust and Roar China, two plays fresh from Moscow. Following year, with Guild money and a Guild script, the Group Theatre, mostly Guild alumni, evolved from the Guild Studio. It presented The House of Connelly as its first play. The social implications concerned the deterioration of Southern landowners. A more sardonic aspect of the U. S. scene...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace it was a grim jest. If ten tons of dust to the square mile goes scooting across the country in a March gale, what may not happen in July? Mr. Wallace decided that the danger of drought was greater than the danger of surplus. He issued an order: Farmers who had pledged themselves to reduce their 1935 Spring wheat planting 10% below normal were relieved of their pledge. More important, he ordered that some $30,000,000 which AAA had contracted to pay Spring wheat growers for reducing their acreage should still be paid, whether...