Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January AAA sprang its great corn-hog reduction program. The hog part of it provided that every farmer who cut his hog birthrate 25% during 1934 would get a bonus of $5 a head for the other 75%. To many a Midwestern farmer who usually raised 100 hogs this meant $375 of wel- come Government cash if he would raise only 75 hogs. That was what Secretary Wallace had in mind...
...town of Kohler, started before the War, looks much like a Midwestern college town. Mr. Kohler built its dormitory-like American Club to house some 300 bachelor workers. Kohler Improvement Co. built its houses (mostly $5,000 and $7,000 homes) for Kohler workers at cost. Kohler Building & Loan Association took their first mortgages and Kohler Co. itself often took second mortgages. All a Kohler worker had to have was about 10% in cash. A town of handsome little homes. set back behind green hedges and green lawns on winding streets, Kohler has long been the perfect picture...
Greatest weather news of the week, however, was the torrential rains which fell upon the drought-parched North Central States. A 3-in. precipitation was estimated by college agronomists to be worth $50,000,000 to desperate farmers. General Midwestern rains prevented utter agricultural disaster but came weeks too late to do any lasting good. On his red-splotched drought map. Relief Administrator Hopkins blocked in 46 more stricken counties in Minnesota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada. Texas. ''The drought area," said he, "no doubt will spread, even though there is more rain...
Died. Thomas William Jackson, 67, humorist; by his own hand (revolver); in Mineral Wells. Tex. Most famed of his works was On a Slow Train Through Arkansas.* one of 13 pulp booklets widely sold for 25? each by "news butchers" on Western and Midwestern local and "accommodation" trains 30 years...
...than it had ever been. On the Great Lakes, cargo boats went 25% light to get over the shoals. Aviators had to climb 5,000 ft. above Omaha to surmount sulphur-colored dust clouds. But the distress to navigators, airmen and city folk was nothing to the desperation of Midwestern farmers, as they watched their fields incinerate, their cattle actually perish of hunger and thirst...