Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million-dollar Embassy were abandoned, the idle Embassy staff was pared to the bone. Climax came last summer when President Roosevelt was forced to transmit through Ambassador Bullitt a sharp note charging the Russian Government with flagrant violation of its pledge not to foster Red propaganda on U. S. soil (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). Early last June disillusioned Bill Bullitt returned to the U. S. At the Patrick Henry Bicentennial celebration in Hanover County, Va. in July, appearing as the President's representative but with every listener keenly aware that the subject of Russia had long been uppermost...
Warning the President and his advisers not to be fooled by "funny facts and figures," the Forum printed a Resettlement Administration publicity photograph of parched and cracking soil, a dusty skyline, a steer's skull lying in the foreground. The picture was taken by the RA's able Cameraman Arthur Rothstein and had been widely used by the U. S. Press as a sample of the drought in the Dakotas. Of this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even...
...Dalhart, Tex., the Commission visited a farm where green crops were growing on land that was near-desert two years ago, the result of Government experiments in soil conservation. Between Dalhart and Guymon, in the Oklahoma Panhandle, Dr. Tugwell and Mr. Cooke climbed dust hills 40 feet high to look out on a landscape of shifting dunes that once was fertile farm land. Mr. Cooke admitted: "This is about what we expected...
...modest Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, Captain of the King's Flight. It took the machine exactly 14 minutes to fly the English Channel. At an obscure French air field near Calais vacationing Edward VIII became "the first King of England ever to alight from the air on foreign soil...
...increasing its production at a tremendous rate but for a closed national economy. India, which is the second largest cotton producer, and China, where the Japanese are encouraging heavy planting at bayonet-point, need their land for food. In Egypt there is a limited amount of Nile water. Nile soil. Only in Brazil and part of the Argentine are there real possibilities of increasing cotton production to the point where the Cotton Belt could be dropped from the list of world cotton exporters. But those areas lack the South's cheap labor. The threat from the Rust cotton picker...