Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressed by the President was the recommendation that the farm program's cost should not exceed the current "soil conservation" appropriation of $500,000,000. Asked how he reconciled this with the fact that the Farm Bill made no provisions for raising the additional $250, 000,000 which it will probably cost the Government, the Committee's Chairman Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith had no answer, left to the House the problem of raising additional revenue for the payments. Meanwhile last week, the House Agriculture Committee under Marvin Jones was working on a Farm Bill...
King Leopold closed by affirming that Belgium knows she will always find in Britain "that sure support which, joined to our own unshakable determination to defend ourselves, would successfully repel all danger from our soil...
Meanwhile Mme Chiang, in her daily column to the U. S. press, radioed from Nanking: "Tokyo's acclamation of Matsui as a hero on Chinese soil has gone to his head . . . strongest wine of militaristic adulation . . . Japanese war lords drunk with their hollow success at Shanghai . . . power lust...
...country was a Spanish colony until 1857 held that the Government owned all subsoil rights. From 1884 until 1917, however, Mexican law gave the surface landowner the petroleum rights and it was during this period that the world's great oil companies got their wells drilled into Mexican soil...
...secretive about his technical developments and, on the other, too attentive to publicity and commercialization. They say that the scientific use of hydroponics should be to learn more about the physiology of plants, that its commercial possibilities are not proved, that it is unsound to compare water-grown with soil-grown crops on the basis of acre for acre yield...