Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sonorous and flexible voice, his delivery easy, President Roosevelt dwelt on the meaning of TVA. "When I first passed this place . . . there flowed here a vagrant stream, sometimes shallow and useless, sometimes turbulent and in flood, always dark with the soil it had washed from the eroding hills. . . . There were and are those who maintain that the development of the enterprise that lies largely in this State is not a proper activity of Government. As for me, I glory in it as one of the great social and economic achievements of the United States...
Agriculture. Soil-conservation payments, commodity-surplus loans, encouragement of farm purchase by tenants, the food-stamp program, "some such" formula as the two-price system in the twice-vetoed McNary-Haugen Bill. "The platform offers no magic formula. The problem is far too complex. ... It does constitute a promise that the Republican Party genuinely seeks solutions...
...Europe's War of the Austrian Succession) was settled. Ten years later Lord Jeffrey Amherst (hero of a famed college song) took it again with the help of famed Tactician Colonel James Wolfe, who died later in the storming of Quebec. Since then it has been British soil...
...practically overrun by Nazis already and the U. S. will get its turn in a few minutes. To thwart this fate, Author Mumford urges total moral regeneration for U. S. liberals. His program embraces three main points: 1) restoration of the family; 2) re-establishment of ties with the soil; 3) the development of personality...
...agricultural districts irrigation projects have transformed semi-deserts into fertile land. The reddish soil of some of the regions of central Asia is almost fantastically fertile. Since the days of Tamerlane peoples have fought wars for water, have dug aryks (irrigation canals). In periods of peace when the primitive irrigation systems functioned well, the country bathed in prosperity. In wars the aryks were destroyed and the desert advanced again. Soviet irrigation systems for cotton land were completed under the first and second Five-Year Plans, but only in 1939 and 1940 did crop yields become impressive...