[News Script: Drought] Page: 1 of 2
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PEOPLE WALK IN WINDY AND DUSTY STREET.
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here was drouth...the number four
story of the year.
Drouth.-now four years old
in some parts of Texas--was dramatized by these
scenes in Fort Worth in February. Blinding
dust-storms, reminiscent of the mid-thirty-dust-bowl-
days, spread a haze over the entire western half
of the state. To city folks it was an
inconvenience dust and grime. To thousands
of ranchers and farmers in West Texas and other
sections, the drouth was an economic killer. ~
shortly after four in the afternoon, the dust socompletely enveloped the city that the lights went
on in downtown office buildings. A farmer joked
grimly that even his drinking water contained only
10-per--cent moisture.,i
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Drought], script, December 31, 1954; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc771079/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.