Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right to live constitutes a claim of fundamental nature. The right to live includes the right to the soil, which alone gives life. For this claim peoples have even fought when a lack of wisdom threatened to interfere with their relationship, for they knew that even bloody sacrifices are better than the gradual dying off of nations. National unity was our first demand. Piece by piece and move by move this was realized...
...nurse (Olympia Fumigalli), Señora Dávila took off in her Flying Fortress. By radio she sent her thanks to Neighbor Roosevelt. Three days later. Franklin Roosevelt's big bird of good will deposited grateful Herminia Arrate de Dávila on her own soil again...
owners who have closer bonds with the banks than with the soil...
...seven years Clarence R. Brown, Los Angeles seed man, worked at developing a variety of paprika which would grow in profitable quantity in California's soil and climate. Last year he thought he had it, sowed 100 acres with his first crop. It came up in time to meet a market deprived of some 4,500,000 lb. of annual imports from Spain and Hungary. Spice houses gobbled up 60 tons of Seed Man Brown's dehydrated paprika powder, grossing...
...even the often interesting French cult of the soil is present. Absurdly mangled sub-titles assure you that the life of the French Canadians is, down at its firm and far-reaching roots, beautiful to behold. But blizzards and wolf-chewed corpses, ignorance and superstition, somewhat vitiate this argument. See Nazis for a better presentation...