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Senator-elect White, personally popular, had won by an average "off-year" majority. Governor Gardiner, on the other hand, had defeated Nominee Moran two years prior by 80,000 votes. The other factors in Maine disputed any broad significance in its vote: 1) no drought; 2) no Prohibition issue; 3) little or no economic depression...
...Corn Crop, estimated at 2,800,000,000 bu. on July 1, 2,120,000,000 bu. Aug. 1, had declined to 1,983,000,000 bu. on Sept. 1 as a result of the Drought. This harvest would be the smallest in 29 years. Two months of rainlessness had withered 29% or 817,000,000 bu. of the corn crop, a cash loss of about $775,000,000. The 1930 crop appeared to be 24% less than that...
...While the damage has been serious [along] the Ohio river, in parts of the Rocky Mountain region, in Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and certain of the southern states, the drought has not been serious in the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys...
Fortnight ago, the International Association of Game, Fish and Conservation commissioners met in Toronto, recommended that the duck shooting season be shortened this year. Because of the drought only 50% of usual number of ducklings were hatched...
Large have been the inroads of the cinema into circus profits, and large this year have been the inroads of depression and drought. Peru, Ind., winter headquarters of almost all U. S. circuses, has received word that by the middle of this month most circuses will have hibernated. Likewise complaining of depression are Coney Island's concessionaires...