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...second disaster when a searing summer heat wave and drought scorched crops and pasture lands from Texas to North Dakota. The temperature in Dallas was over 100° for 53 days in July and August. Reagan Brown, Texas state agriculture commissioner, said glumly in midsummer: "We're hurtin' real bad in Texas." The drought has driven up the price of everything from peanuts to chickens, and it has cost farmers millions of dollars in lost crops and livestock...
...hurtin' real bad in Texas," said State Agriculture Commissioner Reagan Brown. The Lone Star State so far has lost more than 1 million broilers and 50,000 breeder hens. Egg production has dropped 5%, and Brown predicted that U.S. chicken prices will go up 15% in three weeks. Cotton yields in some parts of Texas will probably be about 30% less than last year's. In South Texas, ranchers burned expensive propane gas to sear the needles off prickly pear cactus so that cattle could eat and suck water from the plants...
They'd better, because aside from three returnees in the line, the Quakers are some kinda hurtin' after the first two yards. Harvard Q.B. Brown had the game of his life passing against Penn last year, and he's already got November 11 circled on this season's calendar. It could very well be the battle for third place in the Ivies...
Warmer weather and increased production from non-U.M.W. mines had undercut the strike's effectiveness. Moreover, the financial burden of the walkout was finally grinding down the stubborn miners and their families. "I'm hurtin'," confessed Miner Johnny Elkins, 25, of Hernshaw, W. Va., who voted against the last contract offer. To make ends meet, he had been cutting and selling firewood for $35 a truckload. "Now spring's coming," said Elkins, "and people ain't needing firewood." So he traded in his chain saw for a secondhand trail bike and voted...
...overall tone of the album is near despair, and its saddest song is "Stoned at the Jukebox." When Williams sings of "loving that hurtin' music, 'cause I been hurting too," it seems to come from the heart-wrenching realization that Hank Williams, Jr. can never be entirely accepted for his own music, no matter how good that music...