In 1980, the year I worked for the Census, there were over 30 days when even the nighttime temperature was over one hundred. If you didn’t have air conditioning at night you couldn’t sleep. Bankers were getting real nervous. There were a lot of loans overdue and some farmers were getting real mad at bankers for not helping them get through this crisis. Homesteaded farms were going to be selling on the court house steps and farm wives were spending...
