Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish town of Castellon de la Plana, reports Professor Haldane, the clay consistency of the soil is such that a refuge could quickly be dug 40 feet beneath nearly every house, and these refuges were connected by tunnels. In the end, Castellon was captured by the Rightists (TIME, June 20), but meanwhile Leftist inhabitants made perhaps the best civilian score to date in avoiding death from...
...Frank Hill to his job. "Frosty" Hill has been with FCA since it was created in 1933 to merge a handful of uncoordinated agencies and save the U. S. farmer from foreclosure. As a boy he worked on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, got a first-hand knowledge of soil problems. A shrewd banker with an incredible memory for figures, Governor Hill still talks like the farmer he was born in Kansas...
...chiefly responsible for FCA's scientific farm-loan appraisals, having made a revolutionary study of mortgage history of farms of different soil types. Only 37, he is wiry, energetic, given to pounding his hands together and cussing. Says he: "Between my father's mules and prehistoric gasoline engines I learned to swear early...
...manufacture of steel from the mines to the finished product. Depicted in the second film are some of the constructive operations of the Tennessee Calley Authority. The last picture shows work on the Grand Coulee Dam, largest in the United States, in which the process of solidifying the soil by freezing was successfully used...
With danger of another World War desperately acute, and the chances good that part of it would sooner or later be fought upon Polish soil by the armies of Germany and Russia, the Warsaw Government abruptly dissolved Parliament last week and called an election for November...