Word: rains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to these grim forebodings, rain fell on South Dakota this week and the Department of Agriculture pointed out that farmers' cash income for the first six months of 1936 was $335,000,000 higher than for the same period in 1935. Cheerily declared five Midwest farm journals in The Agricultural Outlook: "Past experience shows that drought does not necessarily curtail farm income when consumer buying power and general economic conditions are improving...
...last week British kings have always appeared at such functions in resplendent uniform. Edward VIII wore a dark grey morning coat. Though rain soon began to patter, ladies whose expensive garden frocks were being ruined remained so obviously eager to drop their curtsies to His Majesty anyhow that he permitted them to continue until presentees began entering the durbar tent in sopping and sodden condition...
...order from King Edward then halted the curtsying, caused numerous young women who had not yet curtsied to burst into tears. An elderly lady, leading the rush to cover from the rain, tripped outside Buckingham Palace, sprawled flat, soiled her white gown. A gentleman arriving late stepped out of his limousine at the precise moment when a Buckingham Palace gardener turned on a hose which happened to be pointed at the gentleman, soused...
...Southwest, and to Midsouth states where livestock was already on the move northward & southward to greener fields. Last month it swung up along the high edge of the Great Plains to the wheat regions of the Dakotas. By last week, after 32 blistering days without a drop of rain, fields in that area yielded nothing but crisp brown stubble. At Mitchell, S. Dak. 11,000 citizens knelt to the tolling of bells in the town's 13 churches one morning last week, devoutly prayed for rain, got none. Instead Dakotans were promised this week a visit from a scouting...
...Rain. Following Italy's successful war to conquer the Ethiopian Empire in a single dry season, there began the war of pacification which may well last years. With it came the awful rains which turn much of Ethiopia yearly into a swamp...