Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March sunlight gilded their breakfast tables, Washingtonians read in their morning papers that in about two weeks the Japanese cherry trees around the Tidal Basin would be in full bloom. The same day Kansans breakfasted by lamp light and read in their morning papers that one of the worst dust storms in the history of their State was sweeping darkly overhead. Damp sheets hung over the windows, but table cloths were grimy. Urchins wrote their names on the dusty china. Food had a gritty taste. Dirt drifted around doorways like snow. People who ventured outside coughed and choked...
...Washington at their sunlit breakfast tables the same Department of Agriculture experts who had foretold the blossoming of the cherry trees, frowned at the news from the West. They did not need to be told that where there is dust there is drought. The records of the Weather Bureau already showed it. The Pacific Coast and Far West had their quota of moisture. So had the States bordering the Mississippi from Iowa southward. But the vast belt that lay between was, for the most part, a parched aftermath of the 1934 drought (TIME...
During last week's dust storm, which lasted four days (and in the heart of the drought district ran on for twelve consecutive days), police closed highways to prevent accidents. Airplanes were grounded. Schools and businesses were closed. Health officers advised every one to stay at home. Three children and several adults were reported dead of pneumonia after breathing dust. During the height of the storm, railway traffic was at a standstill. When high winds swept the dust Eastward Kansas City had night at midday and people walked the streets with handkerchiefs tied across their faces. How great...
Again the theory of AAA has been struck by another mighty blow, the recent Western dust-storm. So serious is the situation that the AAA was forced yesterday to give up completely its stubbornly cherished wheat reduction program. Although the government will continue to pay farmers for crop reduction, the clause providing for limitation will not be enforced...
...metreology who had discovered a five-year period of abnormal rain-fall, reduced wheat production to a point which made even the AAA's effort appear puny by comparison. Because of the drought and government "planning" any surplus was expected to be negligible. Havoc wrought by the recent dust storm, coupled with continued government reduction, has now made any real surplus impossible and a shortage probable. High- or wheat prices, all ready reflected in the Chicago grain markets, may well mean higher-priced broad, the disastrous social and political consequences of which may easily can imagined...