Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flight New Dealers headed by Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell and Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams. Farmers in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa predicted a 50% loss unless rain came within a week. Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri reported that, rain or no rain, they would be lucky to harvest half their normal crop. At week's end, estimated cost of the drought to farmers: $300,000,000. Total persons affected...
...dried into cakey mud. Unless farmers could raise a bumper autumn crop of forage, which seemed unlikely, cattle would die by droves this winter. One of the states hardest hit by the drought of 1934, which reduced the total U.S. cattle herd some 9,000,000 head below normal, was North Dakota, which lost, either by forced slaughter or shipping, 1,000,000 animals. One of the states hardest hit last week was also North Dakota which would have to sell or ship 500,000 cattle immediately...
...smallest world wheat surplus in nine years. Modifying its crop reduction-soil conservation program in the emergency, AAA announced that farmers in the East Central States who had planted land to unprofitable soil-building crops could sow enough food and feed crops to bring their production up to normal, get their Government bounties just the same...
Next Rabbit? Interest in co-operatives was undeniably rising. Wisconsin passed a law last year requiring courses in co operation in colleges, high schools and normal schools. That old Boston cooperator, Edward A. Filene, recently gave $1,000,000 to assist the establishment of co-op department stores. Japan's No. 1 Christian, Cooperator Toyohiko Kagawa, completed a triumphal tour of the U. S. a fortnight ago, preaching the gospel of co-operation to hundreds of thousands of rapt churchmen (TIME, July 6). The Kansas City Star was already warning the country that a co-operative system would...
...With his wife he went first to France, then to England, where he listened to debates in Parliament about fascism, then to Russia, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Ceylon, India, China, Japan. Since they traveled over conventional paths and by conventional methods, they had few adventures, were interested in the normal life in different classes rather than in picturesque or exciting exceptions. The Russia they saw has come to be a familiar land to readers of travel books, a country of new cities, new buildings, new plans, of confusion, enthusiasm, inefficiency. Lester Cohen's most refreshing Russian experience...