Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southern Texas last week pelting rains flooded creeks and rivers, drowned 28 citizens, destroyed some $2,000,000 worth of crops, livestock and other property. Almost everywhere else in the vast U. S. granary between the Appalachians and the Rockies farmers tramped sun-baked soil, watched their crops wither and their parched livestock totter, prayed for rain...
...away, crop statisticians last fortnight gave up all hope that the U. S. would this year get back to exporting a large wheat surplus for the first time since 1931. The Department of Agriculture last week reported the smallest world wheat surplus in nine years. Modifying its crop reduction-soil conservation program in the emergency, AAA announced that farmers in the East Central States who had planted land to unprofitable soil-building crops could sow enough food and feed crops to bring their production up to normal, get their Government bounties just the same...
...prove trustworthy in their defense. "Because we had dedicated ourselves to peace," said the Premier, "we did not resist when the Rhineland was occupied in defiance of treaties. But, Messieurs, does anyone think our reaction would have been the same if [the Germans] had so much as touched our soil or the soil of other countries which we guarantee...
...taken to Lorraine, he learned French and German first, was 16 before he mastered English in Manhattan's DeWitt Clinton High School. Last December he helped get his brother Emile, French nurseryman, out of a Nazi jail after Emile had insulted Adolf Hitler on French soil, been yanked across the border by a German tobacconist and nabbed by frontier police. Another Jolas brother is Jacques, until last year dean of University of Louisville's School of Music...
...that it (1 double the benefits to farmers, 2 includes only cotton and grain, 3 provides that benefits be pai only to those who sign contracts with the Government, 4 provides benefits on the bas of total yield per acre, 5 will pay benefits on the basis of soil control...