Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group will try to solve three main problems...
...second main dogma of the Neo-Malthusians is their belief that the productivity of the world's cultivated land is falling now and is sure to fall even more because of erosion and exhaustion. The enormous crops that the U.S. raised this year, they say, are a cruel illusion; they were achieved by "soil mining," and will be paid for inexorably in future crop failures...
Mukden was lost. The Nationalist withdrawal had turned into a rout. As Communist troops took over the government's main Manchurian stronghold last week, Nanking received the radio message: "No more reports. Cannot get out of office. Goodbye." Nationalist planes began to bomb the city...
Ghost City. TIME & LIFE Correspondent Roy Rowan cabled this description of Mukden's last days: "Mukden is a ghost city. Freezing blasts of wind whistled down its broad, empty thoroughfares. Shop fronts and some of the pillboxes at main intersections were boarded up. Jagged walls in the sprawling Japanese factory areas, blasted by U.S. bombers during the war and later pillaged by Russian occupation forces in 1946, stood silhouetted against a steel-grey sky. Mukden, center of one of the world's potentially richest agricultural and industrial areas, looked as cold and desolate as the ragged half-frozen...
...portable blood mobile unit will take over the main floor of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon in the first day of donation proceedings. "Last minute volunteers may still register at PBH, provided they are over 21," announced Robert P. Hyde '51, drive co-chairman...