Word: drought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas and South Carolina drought conditions last week were literally burning up the crops, transforming fields into veritable grain furnaces, forcing the closing of schools, resulting in depletion in hydroelectric power, and even impelling inhabitants of parched towns to send their laundry into damper regions...
...report as of August 1 showed less startling changes. Condition had fallen off from 70.4 on the former to 65.6 on the latter date. Nevertheless, the crop was estimated at 13,566,000 bales-only 22,000 bales under the July 16 figure. Losses in Texas owing to drought have apparently been practically offset by gains in more easterly portions of the cotton belt...
Very obviously, the much-heralded 1925 cotton crop has been a keen disappointment, owing mainly to the Texas drought. But consumption is on the mend, and losses from the boll weevil have this year apparently run second in importance to losses caused by the weather...
From 3:00 to 7:00 through the heat the multitude gathered into the sylvan theatres near the Washington Monument; the great drought within them was mocked by a downpour of rain. A prayer, a speech or two, and the pounding, pounding rain brought the meeting to a close...
...striking feature in the July 16 report was the poor condition indicated for the Texas crop; the condition figure for this leading cotton state sank from 64 in the earlier report to only 56 in the later one, due to the continuance of drought in the Southwest. Also, the yield per acre in pounds for Texas fell between the reports from...