Word: lowlander
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...worst December flood ever in Pennsylvania, a State famous for its flood records and the Johnstown horror of 1889, came mouthing the floating remains of chicken houses, sheds, fence rails and even sections of the fields. The flood drove workers from their lowland mills and homes. A dozen war plants stopped their lathes, cooled furnaces before the river could walk in and explode against them...
...trying to cross. They hold, too, the middle shores of the Caspian, a pathway the Germans may try to follow southward from Astrakhan. And they have an internal front in Persia to master as well. The wild Kurdish tribesmen of the hills and the milder people of the lowland towns love neither the British nor the Russians; many still harbor Nazi spies, take Nazi money, and even spend Persian money to help the Germans from within. Last week the British seriously suspected that a looming famine in wheat-rich Persia was the work of wealthy, pro-Nazi Persians...
...mulberry groves into cereal patches. The Government wants a 20% shift into wheat, beans and other vegetables which, like mulberry trees, can be grown on Japan's hilly, upland plots. (Rice, the Japanese staple, must be grown under water, takes up most of the Empire's flat, lowland acreage.) Cereals, which hungry Japanese could eat, were obviously better than silk which Japan could not sell...
Dust-Bowl farmers looked at their sodden fields last week and cursed the rain they had longed for in other years. Drought-scarred Kansas was drenched. The water lay in placid sheets high as the wheat heads. On lowland farms and in valleys the grain stood rotting under the stagnant waste of water left by spring floods...
...upland prairie grew a golden harvest whose rich yield ( 20 to 40 bushels an acre) would more than make up for lowland losses. The crops were weeks ahead. Between rains the farmers worked night & day to keep the lush weeds from choking out the grain. In wheat towns, movies did a booming business while the rain came down, keeping farmers from their fields...