Word: rains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world hailed this as a great triumph of French civilization. The Tuaregs settled down, but for two years practically no rain fell. This winter the rain failed again. The goats and cattle died, the wells dried up, the date palms withered. The 240,000 Blue People were starving to death and with them 1,300,000 neighboring Berbers. As many as 200,000 actually died. Folding their tents, loading their mangy camels, 1,000,000 of them started a grim, slow march north toward the Atlas and the more fertile lands beyond...
...large enough. There can be no rain until next January, seven months. The relief fund would mean trying to keep 1,500,000 people alive that length of time at a little less than 2? a day a head. Tuareg tempers grew no better when, upon the first distribution of relief grain several weeks ago, many died from wolfing barley, then drinking water. The Government moved again, talked loudly of a great program of well-drilling and reservoir-building south of the Atlas. The Tuaregs have little interest in reservoirs for the future, they want food now, and France cannot...
...flagellation of the rain, the snow...
...rain dripped all night from miles of waterproofed flags and bunting. Last revelers from the gayest nightspots had not reached home before operators in the telephone exchanges began plugging in wake-up calls to subscribers. Ordinarily there are about 800 such calls in London, this morning there were 10,000. It was barely light and still drizzling when the long streams of humanity began flowing in toward the heart of the spectacle, on foot, in motors, on the subways...
...City, N. Y.: the Metropolitan Open Championship, first event on the richest summer golf schedule on record, in which prize money for 19 tournaments will total $100,000; with 279 for four rounds, to 280 for Henry Picard, 283 for Sam Snead whose record-breaking 65 was canceled when rain forced the second round to be replayed; at Bloomfield...