Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annex dietician welcomes complaints, and uses an incident of a few years ago when Briggs Hall managed to get apples for desert instead of coffee ice-cream as an example of what results can be achieved. That, however, was the last time Miss Burdakin received a petition...
Oceanwise, acording to Petterson, the Earth may be following the evolutionary pattern of Mars and Venus. Venus is still in a pre-oceanic stage, while Mark is a desert plant. "Our present oceanic splendor," he said, "may be a transient stage and the Earth may be on its way towards a complete dessication...
...Ninety-Mile Desert was a painful puzzle to Australia's early settlers. Its rainfall was 20 inches a year, which is good enough for dry Australia, and plenty for many crops. But somehow, nothing desirable grew there. Even sheep did not thrive: they got strange diseases, and their wool turned to coarse hair...
...dosing the sheep with chemicals did not help the vegetation of the desert. So the scientists went to work again. Recently they found that lack of zinc in the soil was what sickened the plants. Some crops needed copper too. So the scientists added small amounts of the two elements to test plots, which responded at once with good crops of oats, clover and alfalfa...
...much of the Ninety-Mile Desert is turning to excellent cropland and pasture. It looks as if 4,000,000 acres can be added in this easy way to Australia's productive area, and the scientists are looking around for other apparent deserts...