Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lovers are standing in the rain outside a New York hotel. Taxis slither by in the wet, and the doorman eyes them coldly...
...walked the streets with handkerchiefs tied across their faces. How great was the crop damage remained largely a matter of guesswork. Oklahoma grimly reported that 50% of the wheat in the Western part of the State was ruined. An Oklahoman was said to have fainted when a drop of rain fell on his head, to have been revived only when two buckets of sand were thrown in his face...
...their greatest obstacles in Mexico City. Fleabites notwithstanding, they inaugurated the magnificent new Palacio de Bellas Artes. Because no one knew how to operate its elaborate lighting system, a "spot" had to be borrowed from a nearby cinema house. Later when the Company danced in the bull ring, rain wilted their tarlatan skirts...
...Kansas has been "meteorite-conscious" for nearly half a century. In 1885 a farmer named Kimberly and his wife moved to a farm in Kiowa County. They found curious black stones used for weighting haystacks, rain-barrel covers and dugout roofs, for plugging gaps in pigpens. Mrs. Kimberly, who in childhood had been shown a meteorite by a teacher, told her husband what the black stones were. He snorted. Despite his gibes and those of the neighborhood, Mrs. Kimberly started collecting the meteorites. For five years she wrote to scientists, met discouraging skepticism. Finally an optimistic savant arrived, examined...
...crass stupidity of continuing the policy up to yesterday seems almost incredible. Last year's drought, predicted months in advance by students of metreology who had discovered a five-year period of abnormal rain-fall, reduced wheat production to a point which made even the AAA's effort appear puny by comparison. Because of the drought and government "planning" any surplus was expected to be negligible. Havoc wrought by the recent dust storm, coupled with continued government reduction, has now made any real surplus impossible and a shortage probable. High- or wheat prices, all ready reflected in the Chicago grain...