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After floods, typhoons and the wettest summer in 50 years, Japan measured her rice crop last week and found it 2,000,000 tons short. The Ministry of Agriculture's verdict: the worst crop in twelve years. Japan, which even in good years must import rice (mainly from Siam), will be able to buy only about 1,000,000 tons, since prices are so high ($213 a ton) and most rice-surplus countries are lagging behind their prewar production...
...rain-maker's services may be at a premium this year, which has started off with the wettest spring on record. In the first four months of 1953 there was a total of 28.46 inches of precipitation (including rain, snow, hail and sleet). This is 15.59 inches over normal. In addition, March was the wettest March and the third wettest month in the 82-year history of the Boston weather bureau. April had more rain than any April since...
...Missouri's late Speaker of the House and son of former Senator Bennett Clark, now U.S. Circuit Judge in the District of Columbia. Young (28) Clark's regular work is at the rewrite desk of the Kansas City Star, where he was assigned late in June, wettest month on Kansas weather records, to write the stories on flood conditions throughout the region...
...normal July, Kansas is as hot and dry as a wheat beard in the afternoon sun, with searing winds browning the stubble and curling the corn leaves. But this is no normal year. June was the wettest month in Kansas weather records (since 1886), and the rain continued into July. When torrential rains poured down last week, there was nothing for the water to do but run off the saturated soil. It ran with a fury never before seen in Kansas...
Director Lloyd Bacon and his technical crew, working with what must be Hollywood's coldest, wettest cast, have handled their subject with skill and resourcefulness. They shot for seven weeks in the waters off Norfolk, Key West and the Virgin Islands, used such special equipment as a seven-ton undersea camera bell, a Navy-developed underwater camera, anti-shark chemicals to protect the actors. John Tucker Battle's script wisely keeps women out of the picture, serves as a dependable framework for the action scenes that make The Frogmen an arresting movie...