Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that no Government timber be sold for ten years. He asserted that Government reclamation projects planned to pay back their cost in ten years, had not done so in 20 years; that on many projects it is impossible to secure sufficient settlers; and that on parts of many the soil is too poor to enable settlers to pay their dues to the Government, so that the Government is facing a loss of many millions of dollars. He recommended a revamping of the Government's reclamation policy since, although eventually all available land must be irrigated, for the time being...
...EMIGRANTS?Johan Bojer? Century ($2.00). From land that is steep and stony to soil that is flat and fertile, from the hills and fiords of Norway to the North Dakota prairies, leads the road of the emigrant?the struggling peasant family, the fiddling goatherd from the hills, the Colonel's daughter, the son of a small farmer and fisherman of the Lofotens. Them and others of several kinds, three families and four bachelors, Mr. Bojer follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses...
...dynamite, and reaped fabulous tribute from the whole world for the secret. The entire family labored incessantly at the invention and manufacture of super-combustibles. So numerous were the explosions and fires which wrecked their laboratories that the Swedish Government forbade them at one time to experiment on Swedish soil. Undaunted, they anchored a laboratory-barge in the middle of Lake Malaren, near Stockholm, and continued their death-pregnant experiments...
Reasons for Leniency. The reason that Senator Smoot and other members of the Debt Commission were willing to grant Italy such lenient terms was simple: They did not believe she could pay more. Her soil is not fertile enough to give Italy a big export surplus of agricultural products. She has very little in the way of natural resources. She has very high taxes and few wealthy people. All she has is cheap labor, and cheap laborers are very poor people from whom to raise taxes...
...fertile soil with industry and easy transportation for men and things from place to place makes a nation strong and great." ?Bacon...