Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even on barren island outposts like Ascension or Iwo Jima the G.I. had his garden sass. Hydroponics made it possible. Before World War II this scientific art of growing plants without soil in chemically treated water had been mostly Sunday supplement stuff. But the Army had read the supplements. It put hydroponics to work...
...from Tokyo on the Tawa River; 25 acres at Otsu, six miles north of Kyoto on Lake Biwa. It hoped to harvest 120,000 Ibs. (some eight servings for every U.S. soldier in Japan and Korea) of fresh vegetables a week by next spring. Reason for the project: Japanese soil has been heavily fertilized with night soil for centuries; vegetables grown in such farmland are fresh but may harbor disease-producing bacteria like the typhoid bacillus...
...growing plants. Down the troughlike basins (they slope gently, are graduated in three broad steps) floods chemically charged water, two or three times a day. In hydroponic farming the irrigating water is loaded with soluble salts of every specific chemical needed, and thus may be superior to any natural soil, for few soils contain all the essentials for vigorous plant growth...
...gloves were off, and the rough, clenched hands which had once guided a plow through the rich Missouri soil were there for all to see. Having compared the Trainmen's Alexander Whitney and the Engineers' Alvanley Johnston to enemy agents, the President went on to denounce them in the strongest language he could use over the radio. Time & again he referred to "these two men," "Mister Whitney and Mister Johnston,"-with mounting scorn...
...debated Britain's proposed withdrawal from Egypt and the hitch in the Cairo negotiations. Churchill insisted that British troops stay in Egypt to protect the Suez Canal. Replied Bevin: "It is not a very popular thing now in international affairs to maintain troops on other people's soil. It is becoming out of fashion...