Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After an abnormally dry spring throughout all the 24 leading agricultural States, with week after week of drying wind and blazing sun, everyone was talking of 1934, the year of the Great Drought. In both 1930 and 1934, reported the U. S. Weather Bureau, "the situation was not nearly so critical at the end of June. . . . Pasture lands, hay, oats, spring wheat and truck crops have been hardest hit. Very little pasture is now available between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. . . . Livestock shipments are becoming heavy because there is no pasture or water...
...Evanston, Ill., that prime New Deal prophet of Federal paternalism, Secretary Wallace, who had promised to make no political speeches on his rescue tour, worried aloud over the possibility of a "weather change" which might be turning the U. S. into a desert. "Of course," he declared, "it is premature to say that our weather has definitely changed, but if we have during the next seven years, weather as freakish as that which we have had during the last seven, it may well be that the people of the U. S. will call on the Federal Government in no unmistakable...
...spellbinder, Alf M. Landon did his most effective Kansas campaigning by putting on his oil-field breeches and windbreaker, climbing into his automobile, dropping in at country stores and farmhouses with a smiling, "I'm Alf Landon,'' sitting down for a talk about crops, weather and politics. Last week his first vacation trip in three years gave Alf Landon his first chance to display his close-range charm as Republican Presidential nominee...
...miles to Tehuacan, after which it gradually degenerates from gravel to dirt to cow tracks. At Chiapas, 185 miles from Guatemala, it halts completely in a maze of mountains. From the Guatemala border to Guatemala City there are 310 miles of road, of which 192 are impassable in wet weather. From Guatemala City there is a fine gravel road for some 200 miles to San Salvador. Beyond lie 87 miles of dry-weather road, which trickles into nothing but a track with occasional good patches as it cuts across a corner of Honduras into Nicaragua. In that country...
Possibly because of its unimportant cast and modest aspirations, Bunker Bean is practically perfect hot-weather entertainment...