Word: loam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treated soil, according to Monsanto, is easier to cultivate because it does not get sticky even when very wet. It holds more water than untreated soil, and so resists drought. No hard crust forms, and no clods; intractable clay or silt soil treated with Krilium behaves like a mellow loam full of organic matter...
...grainfields, some of them tilled in fertile grey-black loam, grow some of the world's finest cereals. Alberta wheat has won 16 international championships. In the rich and sparsely-settled Peace River district, wheat grows 73 bushels to an acre (1950 national average 17.1), and the region is fertile enough to support another million farmers, more than the province's present population. Canneries have moved to southern Alberta, where Canada's sugar-beet industry is centered and the country's tastiest melons and vegetables are grown on irrigated fields...
Along the Snake. As the presidential train rolled across the black-loam Iowa fields laced with corn stubble and patched with rain-fed lakes, it became clear that Harry Truman was concentrating much of his fire on the Republicans' 1950 slogan: "Liberty against socialism." Time after time he cited instances in the past when "calamity howlers" had hung a "socialist" label on programs that were now farmer gospel-rural electrification, soil conservation, public power, flood control...