Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alaskan sourdoughs scoffed at the whole scheme, pointed to the intense cold, the shallow soil, the short growing season, the hordes of mosquitoes. But Anthony J. Dimond, Alaskan Delegate to the U. S. House, declared: "There is only one possible danger of failure and that lies in the temper of the people...
...tennis player and keen at bridge, Whiskey Salesman von Ribbentrop shortly recouped his fortunes by marrying, in 1920, Fräulein Anna Henkell. daughter of a German maker of champagne which Son-in-Law von Ribbentrop proceeded to popularize in the dry U. S. by shrewdly dealing on Canadian soil with bootleggers' agents...
...rated a "green hell" by romantic Author-Explorer Julian Duguid. Actually it is a great variegated basin extending from northern Argentina to eastern Bolivia. The disputed section is a liver-shaped area bounded by the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers. At the Paraguayan edge it is grassy and open, the soil sandy and dry. Farther west the jungle swamps and lagoons begin, follow the sluggish, unnavigable Pilcomayo to the south, dot the drowned lands to the north. Still farther west, verging into Bolivia's Andean foothills, the land changes again to open woodland, broken by fertile plains. White...
...broad idea was that all new wealth comes from the soil which is the foundation of all prosperity, and that the farmers have to be prosperous before others may prosper. It was shown that there has been a perpetual permanent ratio between agricultural income and wages paid by industry-both being constantly about equal...
...heat insulators; shipping highly reactive compounds of sodium in tank cars so full that no air or water can get in to deteriorate them; production on a vast scale at Wilson Dam of phosphatic fertilizers cheap enough to persuade Tennessee Valley farmers to refresh their exhausted, eroding soil...