Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aftermath of war, when allies are no longer in arms against the common peril, there arises the unpleasant problem of which ally must pay the other for services rendered. After World War I. the canard spread that France had even collected rent for the use of trenches on its soil. Last week South Korea's President Syngman Rhee went just as far, if not much farther, in a bill for $684,600,000 that he sent to the U.N. Command, i.e., to the U.S.. which foots almost all the bills...
Homer Bradshaw, feeble and haggard (he had lost 40 Ibs.), helped his wife to freedom across the Lowu Bridge that separates Hong Kong from Communist China; as they walked onto British soil, Red Cross workers had to support them. Wilda Bradshaw, skeleton-thin and empty-eyed, mumbled incoherently and shrank in terror from photographers' flashbulbs...
Having settled that point, the convention pushed through a resolution calling for new Government action on the farm problem. Most of the plan centered on a land-rental and soil-bank proposal under which the Government would pay benefits to farmers who reduced their acreage of surplus commodities and planted soil-building crops instead. Into their plan the delegates wrote a new principle for reducing surpluses: payments to farmers who reduce their planting would be made in certificates entitling them to buy at reduced prices a supply of surplus crops stored in Government bins...
...Farm Bureau was taking its stand, Ezra Benson was meeting in Washington with his National Agricultural Advisory Commission to draw the outlines of the Eisenhower Administration's 1956 farm legislative program. The plan will turn around the six points that Benson listed earlier (TIME, Dec. 12), including a soil bank. Benson was considering the Farm Bureau's certificate gimmick, but he had not decided whether to accept or reject it. (Secretary Benson last week announced a new plan designed to reduce the surpluses: he will give surplus wheat, corn, rice and dry beans to private welfare agencies...
...come from Florida. Good farm land is expanding, notably in the swamps and jungle of the Everglades, where a $250 million drainage and reclamation project is uncovering black muck soil as fertile as anything on earth...