Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma, with only 23% of normal July rainfall, countless fires licked their way through forests and across prairies. It was officially estimated that the water supply necessary to keep 100,000 head of cattle alive would be exhausted in two weeks. On July 1 Oklahoma's corn crop was estimated at 15,000,000 bu. A week later it was estimated at 10,000,000 bu. Last week there were no official estimates, but few persons expected the crop to reach...
...Texas the corn crop was estimated at less than one-fourth of normal. Carloads of cattle too emaciated for slaughter were shipped to Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia for fattening. Other thousands were slaughtered for canning, but neither of these methods could take care of the numbers laid low by the drought. Cowboys rode out on the ranges, began shooting down starved animals at the rate of 1,000 head...
...Poorest." The Department of Agriculture reported: "Dairy pastures are in the poorest condition on record. Milk production ... on July 1 was the smallest on record for that date.'' The July 1 wheat estimate-484,000,000 bu., about half a normal crop-had already told the story of the U. S. wheat farmer. The corn estimate-2,100,000,000 bu.-was by last week a piece of outdated optimism. The potato crop in upper New York State, in New Jersey, on Long Island was suffering severely. Massachusetts had to close all its forests to the public because...
...twins and turned them back to their parents. Their father is Dennis Wood, 40, onetime baseball player, now a grounds keeper at the Yankee Stadium. Mrs. Wood, 33, was once a telephone operator. The Woods, with five older children, live in a four-room apartment. In their turbulent, normal society "conditioned" Johnny and "unconditioned" Jimmy last week started to demonstrate what stuff they are made...
...many of the Sun's 137,000 readers followed suit, Publisher Patterson last week did not know. The effect of the circulation boycott, if any, was indistinguishable at short range from the normal July 1 slump suffered by all periodicals. Some advertisers did receive requests from Catholic customers to close out their accounts, but for the most part the requests were ignored...