Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after all; and it gave me a good feeling. There were only the elements, the earth, the corn, the fire, the night; and out of them a few men, asking few questions, trying to take a living, their old way of life. Will the Lord of the Earth send rain? they ask. If not, people will starve, even the people in the cities. Then they lie down on their straw mats in the warm summer night, and smoke their only and last cigarette...
...Loss. But Freeman reckoned without the skill of American farmers, who boosted production on their curtailed acreage by the liberal use of fertilizer and intensive cultivation. In addition, the summer weather through the Midwest was nearly perfect for the crops: days of warm sun broken just often enough by rain. As a result, corn and sorghum production was off only 490 million bushels. From present signs, the $1.8 billion stockpile of surplus corn will be reduced only slightly. To make matters worse, many farmers who cut feed-grain production made a killing by using their fields to raise soybeans, which...
...Llamas. Peru's Indians have much to remember, unforgivingly. The country, lying along the continent's western bulge, is harsh at the best of times. The chilled winds that blow in from the cold Humboldt Current pass over the dust-dry coastal plain (Lima's last rain was 13 years ago), unload their moisture on the stony Andes. Yet in ancient times Peru flourished. The highly civilized Incas built stone-surfaced roads and bridged rivers; aqueducts spanned valleys, and canals cut through solid rock to carry irrigating water to elaborately terraced mountainside gardens. The welfare of every...
Unwelcome Cloud. Even if the blast gave no local fallout, it surely created some fission products that stayed below the stratosphere to drift with the winds of the lower atmosphere until rain or snow brought them down. By studying their charts, U.S. meteorologists figured that this cloud of tropospheric fallout moved southward into Russia, then swung eastward to cross Siberia. At week's end, it was heading across to the U.S. (see map) near Oregon and Idaho where rain was expected to wash some of its radioactive debris to earth...
...stratosphere, then whirls toward the poles. When it reaches the Arctic, it sinks and re-enters the troposphere (see diagram). If the sinking air carries radioactive particles with it, they are quickly whipped around the earth by fast low-level winds and are eventually deposited on the surface in rain or snow...