Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they would bend every effort to securing a major triumph for Geneva by contriving ''through the League of Nations" to main tain the independence and territorial integrity of Ethiopia. Strong was the popular impression that no solution which did not remove the last Italian soldier from Ethiopian soil would be countenanced by His Majesty's Government...
...knew enough of the problems of the men and women who were partners with the soil to realize the depth of their suffering and the extent of their need back there in 1932 and early 1933. I knew the pangs of fear and moments of rejoicing that come to the farmer as the harvest frowns or smiles. . . . "One of the greatest curses of American life has been speculation. I do not refer to the obvious speculation in stocks and bonds and land booms. . . . The kind of speculation I am talking about is the involuntary speculation of the farmer when...
...gyrations which, of necessity, have left the growers of them speculators against their will. . . . We sought to stop the rule of tooth & claw that threw farmers into bankruptcy or turned them virtually into serfs, forced them to let their buildings, fences and machinery deteriorate, made them rob their soil of its God-given fertility, deprived their sons and daughters of a decent opportunity on the farm. To those days, I trust, the organized power of the nation has put an end forever...
...Cotton farmers must not increase their plantings of peanuts, tobacco or rice but can grow any amount of feed or food for home use. Corn farmers must grow erosion-preventing or soil-improving crops on the land "rented" by the Government...
Since 1931, Pan American Airways has wanted to launch an airline to Europe, has been prevented by inability to get permission to land U. S. planes on foreign soil. This permission was withheld because European nations insisted their air companies have an equal share in the new route. This was impossible for two reasons: 1) only the U. S. had airplanes economically capable of the passage; 2) the U. S. cannot under present laws let an airmail contract to any but U. S. firms, using U. S. material, U. S. crews...