Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radiorating to farmers all over the country General Goring announced that he aimed "at a 30% increase in farm production, at the improvement of five million acres of land." On pain of being deprived of their soil, German farmers were unambiguously commanded to sow the sort of crops that Germany most needs. Declared General Goring: "The State will appoint a trustee to administer the affairs of a farmer who fails, after due warning, to produce needed crops. If necessary the State will take complete control of the land, rent it to another farmer and order the owner to cease farming...
...other colleges in the East points to the conclusion that debating, like so many things, begins at home, and not until the Council directs its appeal to the talent which lies now dormant in the various Houses can the Debating Council hope to plant deep roots in the soil of the college. It may be pleasant to suck the honeyed nectar of applause from local Junior Leagues from time to time, but only from audiences of Harvard students can come the support which the Council needs. It the Council should aim its rays at this untapped source, it would immeasurably...
...which transformed New London's old wooden schoolhouse into one of the finest rural educational plants in the U. S. Still intact were the model home economics kitchens, playgrounds, sewing rooms, laboratories, built by the black crude oil that bubbles richly under the East Texas soil. Natural gas heated the individual classroom radiators in the Consolidated School. Whether it had leaked, in its odorless and highly explosive form, from a radiator or whether it had seeped into the unfinished school basement from the soil, no one seemed to know. The superintendent, a lean Texan of 61, sleepless and stunned...
...Reich clergy in the dead of night by trusted Catholic motorists and motorcyclists. Secret police confiscated a few copies but on Palm Sunday priests and bishops throughout the Reich bravely mounted their pulpits, read to the faithful the Pope's blunt rejection of Nazi doctrines of "blood and soil" and his sharp protest at Nazi violations of the concordat which the Church "with grave misgivings" had ratified in 1933 (TIME, July...
...peoples, 24 countries whose imperial idea was embodied in one aloof, white-whiskered old man. Emperor Franz Joseph, says Werfel, was one of the few who understood the Idea, one of the few who foresaw its inevitable end. Werfel compares this Austrian idea (a "slowly absorbing and digesting soil . . . organic") favorably with the American ("the seething smelting oven . . . mechanical"), admits he was slow to recognize it; now that it is gone, thinks it had its points...