Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When AAA went by the board last January, President Roosevelt whipped through a befuddled Congress a stopgap measure called the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (TIME, March 9). The prime purpose of that law was to restore the flow of cash benefits from Washington to the nation's farmers which the Supreme Court decision had rudely interrupted. Yet the Soil Conservation Act compelled no farmer to do anything about limiting his production. If he shifted cash crop acreage to grass, the Government would pay him something. If he did not, the Government was powerless to deal with...
Tobacco was picked for this first experiment largely because it is not a major U. S. crop and most of it is grown on solid Democratic soil. Then, too, though there are about ten important tobacco States, not more than four control any one of the various distinct types of this crop...
...disturb no one inside the Fatherland. Once again Germany had a real Army, with more than half a million men cocked and primed to strike at a minute's notice. Once again a tough, hard-hitting German Navy was in the making. Once again the Rhineland, sacred soil to every German, was back in the Fatherland's military fold, with German guns and German gunners muzzling the frontier. And once again Germany was virtually friendless in an angry world...
...manage compared to the weavers. Those sensible artisans, with six centuries of conventional design and solid, forthright colors behind them, threw up their hands in horror at Rouault's grotesque figures and great splashings of brick red and blatant blue. "Mais non!" cried they. "We will not soil our looms." Art was only art, however, and a living was a living. In the cottages of La Creuse valley, long-idle looms were dusted off and set to shuttling...
...romance of the achievement itself rather than of the presentation. For the picture is as baldly concrete as one could imagine. There is no symbolism or dramatization. It is merely an excellently photographed and skillfully edited portrayal of the pioneer camps, the new cities, the struggle with the neglected soil turned desert, the new industries, and the new emotional and artistic outlets. But it is almost inevitable that the reader sublimate all this in his own thinking to something idealistic...