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Last spring a minor drought was confined to the Dust Bowl of the 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...
...main line of the Kansas City Southern cuts into Louisiana at its northwest corner, curves southward through wooded hills. Under these hills, just north of the station of Rodessa, lie mile-deep pools of oil discovered last year and now rated as among the largest in the U. S. Last week Kansas City Southern stock was given a fancy jiggle on news that the railroad had struck oil in the Rodessa field. Excitement, however, petered out quickley. It was learned that the drilling had been done not by the railroad. K. C. S. happened to own outright a quarter-mile...
...Seattle last week, having traveled southward 2,000 miles by plane, another 1,000 miles by ship, was Boris Magids, a stocky, bright-eyed little Jew who is "farthest north" in the chain-store business. His half dozen stores are spotted along 1,000 miles of the Arctic Ocean on Alaska's Kotzebue Sound in Eskimo villages with such sub-zero names as Deering, Keewalik, Shishmaref, Kobuk. Gross libel was the press report that his Seattle visit was the first time he had been "outside" in 27 years. Rated one of the Arctic's shrewdest judges...
Next afternoon when she and President Roosevelt should have been rattling southward by train, they and Secretary of War Dern were splashing by motor car over Maryland's drenched roads to see the flooded Potomac...
Seven Varsity netmen have been delegated by Coach Harry Cowles to travel southward next week. Captain Germain G. Glidden '36, Robert L. Bentley, 2d '36, James J. Fuld '37, August C. Helmholtz, 2nd '36, Gordon F. Robertson '36, James J. Thackara '36, and Herbert S. Wallis '36 will make the trip...