Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could also report progress on a cure, the Department explained what was ailing the cattle. It was not alkali disease, said the Department, but selenium poisoning. Selenium is the light-sensitive substance used in photoelectric cells, and is closely related chemically to sulphur. From selenium compounds discovered in the soil of the affected districts, wheat and other plants absorb the poisonous element. The Department's investigators found that if sulphur-harmless alike to plant and consumer-were added to the soil, the plants would absorb that instead of the selenium. Last week Dr. Albert Fred Woods, director...
...borne out by Hitler's own statement in his recently published autobiography on eastern policy. While he is not desirous of imposing Teutonic culture upon neighboring races, the spirit of aggression is implicit in certain statements as to expansion to the cast, such as, "The light to the soil may become a duty if without territorial expansion a great nation seems to be deemed...
Beginning at the Sarre and continuing to the Rhine (125 mi.) France has now dug, blasted and tunneled into the vitals of her soil the heaviest fortifications on earth...
...sign a non-aggression treaty previously negotiated by their foreign ministers; and then discuss: 2) stimulation of Argentine- Brazilian trade by preferential tariffs; 3) A & B co-operation to stamp out smuggling; 4) mutual assistance in preventing South American revolutionists from hatching plots against their President on the soil of another country; 5) cultural interchange between A & B; 6) promotion of A & B tourist travel; 7) "encouragement of aviation...
...wants peace, and to that end will force an iron ultimatum upon the Nazis, but the Graphic somewhat unfortunately goes on to say that Great Britain will build a hundred airships in any case. Daladier rumbles out even stronger threats; Switzerland insists that the German offensive will cross her soil, and only from Doorn and from the perspiring Nazi emissary to Geneva is there silence...