Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 10) wealthy young Hugh Herndon Jr. and hard-bitten Clyde Pangborn decided to slip down to Tokyo and try a nonstop flight to Seattle for $53.000 prize money. They thought to telegraph the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo for permission to fly over and land on Japanese soil, but neglected to wait for a reply before taking off. That was a grave mistake...
...William Zebulon Foster's radical National Textile Workers' Union whose agents and inciters took such woe and bloodshed to the cotton textile industry in and around Gastonia, N. C. two years ago (TIME, April 8, 1929 et seq.). Paterson's hard streets are historically fertile soil for labor disturbances; twice within the last decade have they been harrowed by major textile strikes...
...combined Harvard-Yale track forces which sail for England on the George Washington July 1 with Stamford Bridge, London, as the objective, have high hopes of winning the first Crimson-Blue victory over the Oxford-Cambridge forces, on British soil since 1904. With Harvard supplying one former and two present intercollegiate champions, the combined team, under the direction of Coach Farrell and George Connors, Eli mentor, is rated strong enough to take first place in six events, with stiff competition anticipated all along the line...
Purchased were 8,000 acres of barren sand dunes. On March 12, 1906 surveyors drove their first stakes among the tumbleweeds for U. S. Steel's fiat city. Streets were laid out, houses built, water and gas mains sunk. Top soil was brought in to spread over the sand, to grow trees and grass in. Great scoopers chewed a mile-long harbor back from Lake Michigan. Railroad connections were made. Against the sky began to rise the jagged outlines of steel mills, foundries, tin-plate plants. Within a year $100,000,000 was dumped into this desolate Indiana waste...
...trifle too far into Dr. Brüning's hands. Emotional, sympathetic Host MacDonald had to ask his guest please not to give an interview when he got back to his London hotel. Dr. Brüning promised, kept his promise, gave a subdued interview later "on German soil" at the German Embassy. In a joint MacDonald-Brüning communique the statesmen promised each other respecting Reparations "close collaboration with other governments concerned...