Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conditioned, glass-enclosed porch of a farmhouse on the old battlefield's edge, a little boy spilled his toy soldiers to the floor, arranged them into armies before the rain-splattered windows. As his grandfather watched, eight-year-old David Eisenhower proceeded to wage the Battle of Gettysburg, ended 93 years before as the rain fell on the blood-drenched field and on Lee's army, in retreat toward the Potomac. Former General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower gave young David no professional advice. Cracked Press Secretary Jim Hagerty: "The President lets David fight his own battles...
...State Health Authority complained: "All the misfortune that Bavarians formerly ascribed to the Fohn (a hot Alpine wind) has now turned into the atomic head ache." The Bavarian Minister of the Interior tried to convince complaining farmers that the yellowing of their pastures had nothing to do with atomic rain. In Salzburg cafe waiters warned departing guests not to go without hats for fear of atomic rain...
...Japan, where rain is sometimes really radioactive, a new term, "radiation neurosis" (hoshano noirozeh) has been coined to express a state of extreme nervousness which affects many Japanese after U.S., Soviet and British bomb tests. In understandably jittery Hiroshima, welfare agencies publish bulletins after each rain to assure the citizens that it is not dangerous. In Osaka schoolchildren are told to wear plastic raincoats with hoods. One school held drills to teach the children how to hold their umbrellas so that their hands and faces would not get spattered. Policemen in Itami demanded plastic gloves because their service raincoats...
Japanese scientists have tried to cure hoshano noirozeh by statements that the radioactive rain at its present strength will not hurt anyone. The public thinks it knows better...
...states where a man makes a decision with an eye on the weather and a hand on his pocketbook, thousands of canny farmers are treasuring options that will permit them to withdraw their land from the soil bank by July 20 if they change their minds. Reason: if enough rain falls before that date, many will go ahead with their crops in anticipation of a higher per-acre income than the soil bank would pay (an average of $44 an acre) if the crops were plowed under. End result: rain or no, the politically touchy farm states may well look...