Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most revolutionary ideas in agricultural history last week had the general approval of U.S. Department of Agriculture officials. The idea: that the plow is a great enemy...
Chief exponent of this theory is an Ohio experimental farmer named Edward H. Faulkner. He believes that plowing is responsible for erosion and most other ills of the U.S. soil. He tested his theory by using a cultivation method of his own: instead of plowing he disk-harrowed the soil and planted his crops in the chopped-up surface stubble, weeds and debris. His harvest was astonishing. Many a farmer who reads his newly published report (Plowman's Folly; University of Oklahoma Press; $2) may be tempted never to plow, again...
...simply a gigantic socialist production-for-use program, the control of the means of production being held in the hands of the industrialists and not the workers; any other plan for postwar reconstruction-short of Socialism-not based upon this principle will fail, and we will begin to plow food under and kill cattle to keep the price up while the people starve...
...graves are being dug now by bulldozers-there is no time nor labor available to dig them with shovels. The bulldozers plow back & forth until a space seven feet deep has been scooped out, which is long enough to place eight bodies 18 inches apart. Then into the collective grave small one-foot deep individual graves are scooped out by shovel. Thus, each man lies with seven of his comrades...
...floated. Some of her deck ordnance has been cleaned up. The Navy is hopeful that her old-fashioned reciprocating engines have been fairly well preserved by the thick, overall film of oil. The Navy has not yet decided what it will do with the ship when she can plow the waves again. The Arizona is being cut up for scrap. Her turret mechanism, main and secondary batteries will be used elsewhere. Even the old Utah may yet deal a blow for revenge : some of her ammunition has been recovered, and her sister ships may fire it at the infamous...