Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Temperatures had been low for a fortnight in Southern California when one afternoon last week the Federal Fruit Frost Service sent out a warning that during the night the mercury would dive farther below freezing than it had for 24 years. Frantic men with torches went rushing through the citrus groves lighting great smudge pots, from which billowed smoke to protect the trees from frost. Before morning, temperatures in many places had fallen through the 18° mark set by the 1922 freeze which ruined half the citrus crop. A temperature of 16° was reported near Los Angeles...
...today the citrus crop is six or seven times as great as 25 years ago. One small freeze early in January caused damages estimated at $20,000,000, as much as the entire normal crop was worth in 1912. The Great Freeze of 1937 would probably go down in Southern California history as about equal to 1913 in severity, vastly more costly...
Cook will dismantle his equipment, take it and his associates somewhere in the Southern hemisphere, probably Argentina, to do the Southern sky. "I want to produce the finest star atlas ever made," said this ambitious amateur last week, "and pve a copy to every important observatory in the world...
Meanwhile another branch of the University hierarchy is combing the woods for the snatch artist who broke into the door before it was fixed. Microscopic work on the picture reveal that both the coat and sweater that are visible were purchased in a Southern city, probably Atlanta, Georgia, and it is claimed that the culprit is already known and can save himself several years if he will give himself up quietly...
...northern shrimps are tender and delicious when cooked., and, at least to this prejudiced writer, quite as good as lobsters if not actually better. They average from five to eight inches long when market-sized. They are bright red in color, differing in this respect from the southern shrimps which are green, and generally live on muddy bottom in depths of 60 to 100 fathoms. That is not an easy place for small boats to reach with their limited gear. Fortunately the shrimps come into shallower water near the shore during the winter, where they can more conveniently be taken...