Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the harvest began in Wisconsin and Michigan. Hundreds of Peter Pipers-itinerant pickers, farm laborers, owners of small cucumber patches-worked their way on soil-stained knees between rows of tender vines, carefully pulling off little fellows to be made this winter into gherkins, midgets, tiny-tims and other one-bite numbers, bigger fellows to be brined into dills and koshers...
...Chicago paused in Crown Point, Ind. last week, a tall, robust male of 47 who looked like a white-headed Indian chief descended to the station platform. With a moment-of-destiny air he announced to the reporters present: "I want to put my foot on Indiana soil...
Last week Indiana's soil, as distinct from its station platforms, was dotted with shocks of new-cut wheat. Young green corn was two to three feet high, and high-legged hogs stood up to their chocolate-colored rumps in lush, weedy meadows. Wild hollyhocks and roses splashed the fence lines with color, but nowhere bloomed a fairer flower for Hoosier politicians to gaze upon than their radiantly handsome master, Paul Vories McNutt, returning home to do some hoeing in his own back row. For Paul McNutt's Presidential hopes, carefully nursed through many a long winter, were...
This deal was soon voided when Spain's Republican Government nationalized the potash fields. Since Russian potash (fully occupied feeding the soil of the steppes) was the only other European rebel against Cartel discipline, German and French potash magnates sniffed the rise of a rival Socialist combine. So did their London bankers and sales agents-J. Henry Schroder & Co.-a firm which is an economic booster of the Rome-Berlin Axis. Franco's victory ended their fears, brought Spain back into the potash axis...
...That a special, double linkage coupling will keep the plough it draws from pulling out of the ground-keep a plough at full depth even in hard soil...