Word: soiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national board in Washington as having proved scruples against armed service can enroll in work camps, will pay $30-$35 a month toward their keep (other churchmen will pay for it if they cannot), will work eight hours a day at reforestation, flood control, irrigation, control of soil erosion, other jobs of the C. C. C. type. The C. O.'s day, like the Army's, will begin about 5:30 a.m. But unlike the draftee he will have a few minutes after 6 a.m. breakfast for a group meditation based on the Quaker meeting. Evenings he will...
...majority declared that the bill contains no authority "for sending American troops, under any circumstances, to fight on foreign soil...
About a month ago a small Free French force left the great swamp known as Lake Chad (see map, p. 23), heading north. They passed through nightmarish, weird, surrealistic terrain-along an enormous dry river bed, past sudden oval valleys with lush black soil floors, across a stark desert of slippery sand and sharp stones, across an eroded tableland, through the magnificent mountain peaks (highest: 11,200 ft.) of Tibesti, along the edges of 1,000 ft.-precipices looking down on valleys full of bulrushes, across wastes of crumbling volcanic rock. They drank from sweet wells and pools bitter...
...fact-studded speech (read for him since he had the flu), spoke not of cotton but of the South. Quoting TVA's 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...
...documentaries, Pare Lorentz, who made The River and The Plow That Broke the Plains for the U. S. Government, cabled Flaherty an invitation to film The Land for AAA. In the past 18 months Producer Flaherty has traveled some 20,000 miles about the U. S., making pictures on soil erosion. The Land will be completed this spring...