Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Case. In New York City, the U. S. Government charged two bustards, two brolgas, two pittas, eleven carpet snakes, two scrub wallabies, two blue-faced honey-eaters, 241 other creatures with illegal entry from Australia...
...David Lilienthal, he accused his native land of having exported its soil's fertility, for which no price, however free or however protected, is high enough. Said he: "There is many a gullied hillside in our south eastern States today that is being plowed by a scrub mule, trying to raise cotton in competition with Oscar Johnston's mechanized Pine Delta plantation. It can't be done." His solution: diversification and mechanization of southern farms, restoration of their soil and forests, industrialization. The cotton problem would then take care of itself. But "you can't clear...
...look like another Italo-British speed contest (see above). From Kassala, a few miles inside Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the British pursued Italians 68 miles to Biscia, head of a railway running down to the Red Sea port of Massaua. Operating here in rough foothills covered with dry six-foot scrub where lions and elephants are more at home than tanks, the British, although forced for the most part to hug the roads, kept so hot after the retreating Italians that the latter scarcely fought even rear-guard actions, until they were within 15 miles of the railhead. The British...
...remarkable rush, from Matruh the day and night before, 60 miles in one haul, and now they settled down on the cold sands for a valuable nap. Mechanized forces had deployed earlier in a sharp curve to the south and west, using the moonlight to dodge scrub and big desert boulders...
...loving Floridians consoled themselves with a sevencar special of their own last week. As backwoods crowds gathered by the tracks at Jacksonville, Green Cove Springs, Palatka, DeLand, Kissimmee, Tampa, they went aboard to see the candidates for their favor: four heifers, one choice feed steer, one medium steer, one scrub steer, three dairy cattle, one big black Poland-China sow, eight pigs. Except for the scrub steer (brought along as a horrible example), all were sleek, handsome, groomed within an inch of their lives. Sharing their train were exhibits of various grasses, seed corn, peanuts, fencing methods ("Keep Ferdinand...