Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youthful, steady-going Ote Mortimer, glad to get back South after a Depression which landed him in a Detroit automobile factory, proves that a sharecropper can still raise a paying crop, can keep from degenerating, enjoy pleasant relations with his landlord and his girl-Depression, drought and Erskine Caldwell notwithstanding. It is only when his desperately squeezed landlord cannot pay him enough to settle down to a normal married life that his girl runs off with a bootlegger and he smashes in Landlord Allard's head with a singletree...
...fracas. A plea to reopen from their president and from now on the Commissioner of Markets was met in open mass meetings with a loud Yiddish NO! Ignoring the law of supply & demand, which was working with textbook simplicity as a result of Drought and Government curtailment, the butchers howled that they were the victims of a packers' monopoly...
Before Depression the volume of new capital that poured into industry was a torrent. Then it dwindled to a trickle. The figures on the prolonged drought in new financing...
Smaller than the other three of the "Big Four" (Swift, Armour, Wilson), Cudahy suffered more because most of its slaughtering houses were in the drought area and it lacks its bigger rivals' range of by-products to tide it over. In the last fiscal year ending October 1936, Cudahy made $1,815,000 or $2.65 per common share. So far this year it has paid $1.87½ per common share. In passing last week's dividend, President Edward A. Cudahy Jr. explained: "Smaller volume of raw material, together with substantial increases in wages, various additional forms of taxes...
...college Freshmen. Furthermore, a week or more is necessary before the Freshman coaches can put together a team from the packs of players with most of whom they are entirely unacquainted. A glance at the records of past football teams easily verifies this apparently pessimistic statement. The drought in Freshman football victories during the last two years has been desolate, to say the least...