Word: soiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proud, hardy, melancholy farmers of Spain scratched the dry soil last week with ancient tools. The drought was one of the worst in modern times. In Barcelona, the shortage of hydroelectric power kept the textile plants shut down for six days out of seven. The people, inured to poverty for centuries, looked for help from two sources: from God, in the form of rain, and from the U.S., in the form of money, machines, supplies. They were almost wholly unaware of the controversy that raged in the free world over whether Franco's Spain should be helped...
...Vogt's "main thesis" is that the world cannot materially expand, perhaps not even maintain, its present food production. The scientists TIME consulted (in the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering, and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service) disagree strongly with this thesis. TIME did not deny that the human species is theoretically able to multiply without limit. Neither is there any theoretical limit to the food supply. But TIME pointed out that when people reach high standards of living and education, they tend to balance their increase with their means of subsistence...
While most soil men have never taken Malthus' theory too literally, it was a useful tool to frighten farmers into soil conservation. For this reason, those of us who are crusading for conservation believe that your analysis of William Vogt's theories, while essentially sound and correct, will be a damaging blow. Farmers will now sleep late, plow up and down the hill. Most of them have to be frightened into action, and now our bogie man is dead by the hand of TIME...
There were many other projects, all worthy, all vague, and mostly unfinished. An investigation in Haiti, said Dr. Huxley, had disclosed that Haiti's problem "is fundamentally one of overpopulation, soil erosion and disease, and is impossible of solution only or mainly by educational methods." "People generally," remarked George Allen dryly, "are impressed by finished jobs." Later on, stocky, practical U.S. Delegate Anne O'Hare McCormick cried in desperation: "What is the precise role of UNESCO? It's becoming more and more vague. We are constantly being called upon to make studies and promote. Promote what? What...
...based on such an assumption. Thus the Chinese commercial class cannot make long-term contracts with confidence that the Chinese state will endure as long as the contract . . . Corruption thrives on these conditions, but corruption is but one aspect of the consequences. The tendency to milk the soil instead of conserving it, to spend before money loses value instead of saving, to reap a quick profit instead of engaging in long-term constructive efforts, to maintain what the monetary economists call 'liquidity of assets,' but in easily salable goods rather than money-all these underlie the corruption. Corruption...