Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distressed by the fact that the disappearance of hardy grass from the U. S. great plains was releasing numberless tons of soil on the wind and making vast reaches of new desert, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace last spring sent an expedition to the Gobi Desert where, he knew, were sturdy grasses which could outlive extremes of cold and heat and drought. Expedition leader was bald, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, painter, mystic, founder of Manhattan's Roerich Museum, habitué of Central Asia (TIME...
...believe in the German peasant who tills the soil for his people...
...command the French harbor of Djibouti, connected by rail with Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. All week freight cars from Addis Ababa were jam-packed with goods shipped out by frightened foreign merchants in Ethiopia who closed their stores, hoped to keep their goods in storage on French soil until better times. French Premier Pierre Laval, realizing the extreme delicacy of French Somaliland's situation, appointed last week as its Governor General his close personal friend, M. Silvestre Teris, one-time Governor of Cambodia in French Indo-China...
...Public Health in India, declared: "Sixty percent of the village population are poorly or badly nourished. . . . The country is in a state of emergency which is rapidly passing to one of crisis. . . . The outlook for the future is gloomy to a degree. . . . If the entire products of the soil are needed to provide for the urgent needs of the cultivators [as at present], nothing will be left for the payment of rent or revenue. . . . The whole social structure of India must inevitably be rudely shaken, if not wholly destroyed...
...those pre-Fascist days keen, hard little King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy had picked hawk-eyed,, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi as his naval aide-de-camp. Austria's spy net was known to have its spider on Swiss soil at Zurich in the person of a certain Captain Mayer. On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen. For the next three days the Italian frontier was closed to keep Austrian spies from escaping from Italy. They were caught and shot in batches on the evidence provided...