Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill extending until Dec. 31, 1941 the authority of the Government to make benefit payments direct to farmers in connection with its soil conservation program. Under provisions of the Soil Conservation Act individual States would administer such Federal funds and make direct disbursements to farmers after next Dec. 31. Last week's bill, passed without a roll call under a suspension of House rules and sent to the Senate, was considered necessary by farm leaders because an insufficient number of States had set up legislative machinery to handle the funds...
...position to estimate its exactness. Laymen and journalists noted that Italy's charges amount to saying that Socialist Premier Blum, while prating of neutrality, has been winking at wholesale smugglery of munitions and warplanes from France to the Leftists, permitting Soviet general staffers to direct operations from French soil, enabling Russian bombing planes to arrive nightly. According to Editor Gayda, units of the Soviet Navy were steaming from the Black Sea last week bound through the Dardanelles for Spain and trouble. At Paris the office of the Premier denied nothing in detail, issued blanket denials and blanket charges...
Amana Sirs: Communistic experiments did not stop at Indiana's New Harmony (TIME. March 22, p. 91), for Iowa's Amanas (East, West, North, South, and Big and Little) cover thousands of acres of most fertile Iowa soil, an artificial lake, and fill hundreds of unpainted frame houses, shops and barns, near Cedar Rapids...
They tilled the soil, in succeeding years dammed the river for power, built woolen and flour mills, dyeworks, woodworking shops. Each adult had a coupon book worth $40 to purchase a year's necessities at a village store. Community kitchens provided meals for everyone. Rule-breakers were punished by being excluded from religious services...
...untilled fields and oak forest are rocky and the Italians were forced to build rocky parapets rather than attempt to dig the soil where a spade would not cut, and the horrible effect of shells- from the guns of the 60 tanks that fought with the [Leftist] infantry in the Brihuega battle-bursting in and against these rock piles made a nightmare of corpses. The small Italian tanks, armed only with machine guns, were as helpless against the medium-sized [Madrid] Government tanks, armed with cannon and machine guns, as Coast Guard cutters would be against armored cruisers...