Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acre for acre, the red lava soil of Hawaii is the richest sugar land in the world. Two of Hawaii's biggest sugar plantations, on the island of Maui, are Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd. and Maui Agricultural Co., Ltd. Last week, 70-year-old Frank Fowler Baldwin, ruling patriarch of Hawaii's potent Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., combined the two companies in a $25 million merger. As a result, the new company, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd., with 25,454 acres of cane land and a yearly output of 135,000 tons of sugar, becomes the largest plantation...
...mother was home in Long Beach, Calif., last week, after four years in a relocation camp in Manzanar. As a native-born Japanese, the mother of Hero Munemori is not, and can never be, a U.S. citizen. Under California statutes, she can never own a home on California soil...
...reason for the quiet was the shift of election emphasis from the heavily Communist cities (where minds seem already made up) to the countryside. Out in the hill villages, living in bleak cottages and scratching a bare living from the thin soil of the peninsula, the poverty-stricken paesano was the man of the hour. His vote might tip the scales...
...seedbed for little magazines, the American soil is fertile but thinly spread. Of the hundreds that have sprouted since 1912, only a handful have put down roots. Some of the best (Hound & Horn, the Dial, etc.) have withered and died. Last week a cluster of new ones bravely poked their heads above ground...
...Michigan Agricultural College, Liberty Hyde Bailey founded the first department of horticulture in any U.S. college. Six years later, he went to Cornell. He set up its first departments of plant pathology, plant physiology, plant breeding and soil technology. As dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture, he raised the faculty from eleven to 100, increased student enrollment from 100 to 1,400. He wrote over 50 books on plants and plant life, edited 50 more. But between books and classes, he always found time to hitch up his horse & buggy and drive out to tell neighboring farmers...