Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short-grass country of southwest Oklahoma, the normal pattern of weather is a cruel one for farmers: too much rain at spring-planting time, drought in the growing season, rain again for the harvest. Year after year, cotton, maize and alfalfa crops have either been washed out by floods or ruinously parched...
...almost bad enough to make all the oldsters want to go back to Iowa. Something had happened to Los Angeles' gold-plated weather...
This year's weather was as bad as any since the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. No rain had fallen, to speak of, all summer. But last week, instead of gloom, there was jubilation in the short-grass country. A $12,000,000 federal reclamation project was formally opened, promising an end, at last, to floods and drought for 50,000 acres of prairie farmland...
...remember the bottom dropped out, and then dropped out again, twice. It was the weather. It wasn't the pilot's fault and it wasn't the airplane's fault. I came to twelve or 15 times, I just don't remember. I knew where I was and what had happened, but I was kept so busy trying to keep the flies off and trying to move the body from me, and then I'd go back to sleep...
...farm, such fancy training aids as vitamin pills and patent-medicine tonics have long been discarded. Says Jimmy Jones: "Grass has pills beat." One Jones trick: in hot weather, young horses are turned out to run at night instead of during...