Word: alfalfa
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...after day last week, big C82 "Flying Boxcars" with their wings and tails painted fire-engine red (for easy spotting in case of forced landings on snow) labored into the air at Fallen, Nev., heavy with bales of alfalfa hay. They rumbled over the mountains to a field at Ely, landed, picked up guides and took off again for mountain valleys...
Once dropped, the hay was ready for feeding-the tightly pressed bales frequently burst like bombs when they hit the ground, scattering loose alfalfa in sprays. In its first seven days, Operation Haylift had flown 126 "sorties," had dropped 525 tons of alfalfa, seemed on the way to saving thousands of starving animals. Other missions were flown from Denver, Ogden, Utah; Kearney, Neb.; and Rapid City...
...Master of Soil. The good farmer knows what to do. He adds lime and fertilizer and grows grass or clover or alfalfa. Gradually the thin, sour forest soil turns into something like chernozem. The well-kept farms of New York State, Pennsylvania and Ohio are now far more fertile than they were when the pioneers (who so vex Vogt) first felled the forest...
...instead of up & down hill. On thousands of once sterile slopes, the miraculous vine, kudzu, clambers like Jack's beanstalk. It chokes devouring gullies with entangled soil. It buries fences, leaps into trees. Its big leaves, which stay green until Christmas, are as nourishing to cattle as excellent alfalfa. When plowed under, kudzu enriches the soil...
...This Infamous Program." In the convention hall, Southern oratory boomed out like cannon fire. In the front row, Oklahoma's doddering ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray beamed his approval, proudly recalled that "I'm the man who introduced Jim Crow in Oklahoma." Race-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith turned up as a spectator under the pseudonym of S. Goodyear. A group of Mississippi students set up a chant: "To hell with Truman...