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ui vciecLru; piunis naa io ration power, slowing industrial production and temporarily blacking out households. Drought”" or near-drought prevailed in the United States from the Great Plains to New England. In normally humid Massachusetts, the reservoir at Worcester became a dried, cracked wasteland of mud. % Seven states canceled hunting seasons and banned fires in the powder-dry woods.
New Jersey firemen fought a forest fire with water drawn from an abandoned mine Shalt and pumper through a halfmile of hose. They had to bypass a more convenient water supply in a nearby, but ebbing, reservoir.
In Williams, Arizona, where in normal times stockmen buy water for their herds from a coin-operated dispenser giving 260 gallons for 25 cents, the severe drought reduced a quarter’s worth to 90 gallons.
Texans, who have learned to live with and laugh at drought, revived the wry story of the rancher who said, “Well, the wind blew the ranch plumb into Old Mexico, but we ain’t lost everything. We get to keep the mortgage.’’
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