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...development of the tractor, the rainy years between 1914 and 1931 and high prices for farmers' crops caused a tremendous increase in plowing. Millions of acres of sandy or submarginal land were planted to wheat, corn and cotton. Amid the droughts of the 19305, the coverless, powder-dry earth of the plains lay helpless under the scouring winds. During World War II, heavy rainfall and high prices brought a repetition of the cycle; once more millions of marginal acres were plowed and planted by "suitcase farmers" intent on a fast dollar...
...armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients. The Red generals Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng were trying to reinforce their badly mauled forces; the Communist supply lines from the north were long, and open to air attack in coverless terrain...
...forward to machine-gun range. Thus they cut an important Nazi lateral communication line ori the east bank of the Rhine. Finally a 78th Division platoon, led by a staff sergeant, crossed the road in what one correspondent called "a gallant, old-fashioned infantry charge across 250 yards of coverless, fire-swept ground." At week's end the Yanks were astride the road along a six-mile stretch and had pushed a mile beyond...
...spring of 1942 a group of sailors were lolling on the gun deck of a transport at Samoa. One of them picked up a battered, coverless novel and began to read it aloud...
...Russians Waited. Later in the winter a member of the Inter-Allied Commission visited the camp at Delfa, was shocked by the filth, the coverless straw pallets, the crusts of bread. He promptly got supplies from U.S. quartermasters. British soldiers pitched in and built a new internment camp for the Russians just outside Algiers...