Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wheat-harvesting time on the Canadian prairies last week, but in many a field the wheat was dull brown instead of the normal harvest yellow. Fostered by cloudy, wet weather, an epidemic of rust fungus had ravaged Canada's wheat crop. Between the grain rust and bad weather, the 1954 harvest has shrunk to an estimated 370 million bushels-36% below 1953 and 44% below...
Although the blighted harvest will hurt many farmers severely, it will also help to relieve a nagging national problem. Bumper crops in 1951-53 crammed Canadian grain elevators with unsold wheat. The poor 1954 crop will help reduce the huge surplus. And, since the same nasty weather that plagued Canada all summer also prevailed in Western Europe, prospects are that Canada will be able to boost its wheat exports to Europe this year...
Pacific Wave. Hurricane Carol, which smashed, tangled and flooded New England last week, started her career as a run-of-the-mill hurricane, perhaps a little lazier than most. On Monday morning, she was dawdling along off South Carolina, watched by airplanes and Weather Bureau radar and spinning northward at only four miles per hour. By Monday afternoon, Carol was captured by the planetary wind. It picked up her whirling mass and carried it north northeastward at 18 to 20 m.p.h. The weathermen, studying their charts, expected her to veer more sharply to the east and pass harmlessly east...
...weather-beaten fishing towns from Anacortes, Wash. to New Westminster, B.C., fishermen last week toasted each other in Slovenian, Norwegian and English. Not for 41 years had such hordes of salmon swarmed through Puget Sound on their way to their spawning grounds far up British Columbia's Fraser River...
...lived in Arizona at the bottom of an eight-mile canyon wall, 70 miles from the nearest town, which was a hot, dusty hamlet that "looked as if it had been blown in on a dry wind and stranded." Author Iliff served as teacher, doctor, judge, superintendent, and, incidentally, weather reporter to the U.S. Government. Her story is full of fascinating detail (e.g., at puberty, Havasupai girls were placed on a bed of heated stones and instructed all night in the facts of life for a wife and homemaker). A quiet, good-humored book about a vanishing life...