Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington's crop predictions as gross overestimates. Farmers planting corn raised clouds of dust like columns of marching troops. Then came the wind, great gusty blasts out of the Northwest. It lifted the dust from the parched fields and swirled it across the land. It tore the powdery soil from the roots of the wheat and deposited it like snowdrifts miles away. Concrete highways were buried under six inches of dust. The rich fertility of a million farms took to the air: 300,000,000 tons of soil billowing through the sky. Housewives in Des Moines could write their...
...Jewish state was precisely in the hypothetical line of march of the next Russo-Japanese War. Six years ago Soviet Russia marked it as Jewish, moved in several thousand Jews from Western Russia, Lithuania, the U. S., Argentina and Palestine. Many of them moved right out again. The soil was rich; the crops of wheat and oats were heavy; iron, coal, graphite, marble and gold lay in the hills; the rivers ran with salmon and the forests with game. The neighbors, Russians and a few Koreans, were friendly. The Government ran a cannery, was building a Jewish theatre...
...Czar's government was not wholly credulous. It seemed to have some qualms that so much Russian armament should be manufactured on foreign soil. This offered no problem to the armament makers. Schneider installed engineers and managers at the Putilov works in St. Petersburg. The Krupps did likewise. French newspapers screamed that the Krupps were spying. German newspapers screamed that the French were spying. But in 1914 found Schneider and Krupp engineers side by side on terms of cordial friendship, overseeing ordnance manufacture on behalf of Nicholas H, Czar of all the Russias
...Claus, in the person of an American banker decides to float a loan for Taronia. In order to impress the American people with the soundness of such an investment, he brings along the beautiful Princess Catterina (Sylvia Sidney). No sooner has the lovely lady put her foot upon American soil than she is smitten with the beauty of the land and a bad case of mumps. Rising to the emergency the banker finds a perfect double in a minor stock actress, also played by Miss Sidney. The serenity of her triumph is disturbed when a wealthy newspaper owner (Cary Grant...
Startling error of omission in your airmail map (TIME, April 23, p. 24) is "the "Before Cancellation and After" route of American Airways from Buffalo, across Canadian soil, through Detroit and into Chicago. Cartographer and reporter both failed to delineate accurately any but the Newark-Buffalo portion of Mr. Cord's Newark-Chicago ''Valley Route." . . . The route is too important to omit. With its inauguration May 3, 1933, Mr. Cord's American Airways became the first transportation company to put geographically off-line Detroit on a direct New York-Chicago trunk line. How important this...