Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three places in the land of his destination, Dr. Weizmann's countrymen were challenging their difficulties with different degrees of success...
...railroad reached Anapolis and the town became the gateway to Brazil's rapidly growing west. Now Anapolis, with 15,000 rough-&-ready, gun-toting citizens, is as full of gusty confidence as west Texas. In the hinterland, droves of farmers are rushing in to buy up cheap land, plant corn, rice and beans...
Northeast of Anapolis, pioneers are opening up the great, mile-high, 1,800,000-acre chapada dos veadeiros (plateau of the deer hunters). In all Brazil, its land is best for wheat, and wheat is what Brazil needs. Last year the country spent $135 million on imports. Much of the chapada is forested, but the pioneers are hard at work, burning off the underbrush and rooting out stumps. When a flame sears or an ax slips, friends will give the injured what fumbling first aid they can. If that is not enough, the patient is packed into a truck...
...some theorists do, that soil deterioration caused the fall of older civilizations. When soil goes to pot, the causes lie deeper than farming practices, he says. "Generally, when a rural population becomes poverty-stricken, it fails to maintain its soil. An exploited people pass on their suffering to the land. Low prices, disease and wars are all important causes. Things get on a hand-to-mouth or year-to-year basis . . . Where farmers can take a long view of production, there are very few instances of conflict between those practices that give most return and those that maintain the soil...
...Crusades (Paramount), produced in 1935 by Cecil B. DeMille, has been reissued on two pretexts: that war has come again to the Holy Land; that an Oscar has just come to Loretta Young, the picture's star. Neither excuse is necessary. The film just about attains the DeMillen-nium of screen spectacles and is worth a second look...