Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter, read in all Catholic pulpits, heavily emphasized the Church's approval of the rural life for the protection of family ties and as a shield against city distractions. The bishops made the point that Quebec still had 10,000,000 acres of tillable, uncultivated soil, enough to establish 500 parishes of 200 families each. Said they: "Many of our young people would find there the living space that would allow them to make a home." Colonization was not a temporary palliative. "This is a permanent task ... to fill the gaps caused by emigration. ... It is also important...
...currently wondering where to farm or whether to farm at all. Many will wind up in city jobs or in the U.S. Colonization schemes in the '30s and early '40s have drawn 11,300 families into Quebec's great hinterland. To help lure more to the soil, the Quebec government is ready today to sell approved families (they must meet certain requirements as to health, etc.) 100 acres at 30? an acre. It will also provide free transportation, the use of tractors, monthly allowances of $15 for from three months to a year, cash grants...
...buzz swept over the crowd of British journalists, uneasy at hearing German in a London press conference. As the speaker continued, there was more than his language to make his listeners uneasy. He was veteran Socialist Dr. Kurt Schumacher, who raised his voice on what was technically still enemy soil, and he had some blunt and bitter truths for the victors...
...have been under intensive management longer than any other similar tract in the United States. Here instructors and students work together under actual forest conditions at all seasons of the year. The area around Petersham, Massachusetts, where the forest is located, has varied and interesting conditions of forest cover, soil, and topography Containing a great number of trees species--the beech, birches and maples of the northern zone and the oak, hickory, and chestnut of the central zone, this is an ideal location for Harvard's graduate school of Forestry. Silviculture studies in progress at Petersham are aimed at profitable...
...Camps which are the center of enemy activity run by military authorities exist on the very Yugoslav border. They are engaged in acts of terrorism on the very soil of Yugoslavia. They hope to invade our country which has suffered so much through the war. To ignore this is to bid for a new world war. Mere numbers around a council table like this cannot decide whether or not the birthplace of the third world war already exists. I serve notice that the Yugoslav government may protest