Word: hailstorm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bushels, better by 7,459,000 bushels than last year's bumper yield, higher by 5,000,000 bushels than the previous record crop of 1931. But Department of Agriculture men-not to speak of the always apprehensive farmers-had their fingers crossed. Drought, a heavy hailstorm, prolonged cold could seriously cut the crop. Mid-continent farmers who had escaped the blight of greenbugs that had ruined large acreages in Oklahoma and Texas now prayed for warm days that would bring out the brown-specked ladybugs to chase away the greenbugs...
Comment elsewhere in the Senate and House: "Screwy talk ... as balmy as Hitler's . . . nonsensical . . . mischievous." In a hailstorm of editorials, the U.S. press asked the General, with varying degrees of asperity, to confine himself to such remarks as "Forward, men" and "Open fire...
Time's Nick. In De Witt County, ILL., Farmer Carle Walker insured his crops against damage by hail. Twenty minutes later a hailstorm destroyed his corn and soybeans...
...mayor of Winston-Salem. - As London's famed, 300-acre Royal Botanic Gardens at Suburban Kew celebrated its centenary with unabated activity and attendance, doughty old Director Sir Arthur Hill chortled: "Hitler's bombs have failed to do as much damage as the disastrous hailstorm of 1879," announced that against the day when Hitler might ruin Kew's gardens with gas, he had provided gas masks for his rare orchids...