Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balance Sheet. The idea swept the country. At present there are nearly 1,700 districts, containing two-thirds of the nation's farms. In the growing season of 1947, 100,000,000 acres will be cultivated scientifically to save the soil...
...joined the Department of Agriculture as a young chemist in 1903, he was sent to Louisa County, Virginia, to see why its soil was so poor. His shocking discovery: the soil was not just poor; most of it was gone, washed down roaring gullies or spirited away by stealthy "sheet erosion." And it was not only the backward South that was threatened with soil destruction. U.S. farmers everywhere, ignoring erosion by water and wind and over-cropping, were squandering the nation's most vital asset...
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Four hundred neophyte tycoons are entering for their first term, and 380 of those who sweltered through last summer are returning with an additional 650 second-year men. The 70 needed to complete the balance sheet are in a special advanced management course of study...
Last week Red Motley preferred to look at the brighter side. "We've cleaned house as far as advertisers are concerned," he boomed. "We've thrown the truss boys, kidney-pill artists and goiter-curers out of the sheet, and have replaced them with such Class A advertisers as General Foods, Arm & Hammer and Sunshine Biscuits." (Last week's Parade also had a lurid full-page ad for a book bargain, Bachelor's Quarters and One of Cleopatra's Nights...