Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week took up the kind of national problem with which he knows best how to deal. A drought,* worst since the Civil war, was upon the east and midwest (see p. 15). Husbandmen across a checkerboard of devastation faced immense crop and livestock losses. President Hoover could not bring rain, but he could and did organize relief agencies
...beat down through cloudless skies to blister the earth. Under normal circumstances low pressure areas known as "cyclonic storms" (not necessarily of "cyclonic" velocity and violence) swing periodically across the land from west to east, sucking in and mixing hot and cold winds, producing rain. This year such beneficent disturbances did not cease, but they apparently moved northward from their normal track to the Hudson's Bay area of Canada where plenty of rain has fallen. Why these cyclonic storms shifted north no man knows for sure. One guess is that an interrelation exists between the moon...
...Alexandria, Va. Chamber of Commerce ordered from New Mexico 200 lb. of a chemical to make rain when sprayed on clouds from an airplane. Meteorologists said their "rain powder" would be about as effective as salt on a bird's tail...
...sovereign state which happens to have the same King as Denmark, celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of its parliament month ago (TIME, July 7). Great Britain sent its largest battleship, foreign newspapers sent reporters, the world was made Iceland-conscious. Omitted from the festivities were the 21 bleary, rain-drenched Faroe Islands which straggle through the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetlands and have been Danish territory since 1386. Life is hard in the Faroes. Their industries are cod-fishing, sheep-raising, knitting golf sweaters, plucking puffin feathers. Their amusements are negligible. Brooding over their Icelandic slight, last week...
...rain." explained the Chinese shipmaster. "Workmen won't work in the rain without umbrellas, and the Cantonese soldiers have mobilized all our umbrellas." The U. S. commandant did not argue...