Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple life of toil and worship is that of Amish Colony of the Mennonite sect on the central Illinois flats. Tilling the soil on large farms, its rugged members have always opposed modern machinery on theological grounds. The Colony was steadfast even during the World War, when increased production would have meant bigger profits. Last week the Mennonites compromised. First, rain had held up planting. Second, heat had felled horses. After prayer and conference, the Mennonite elders voted to rent some tractors, to hire some drivers. But piously they vowed that as soon as they caught up, out would...
...publisher of Hearst's Detroit Times. The stolid, conservative Commercial Appeal (''Largest Circulation in the South"-111,000), is so deeply rooted in affairs of the South that even the Lea-Caldwell cataclysm failed to shake it. Good-looking Publisher Hammond, 40, was back on home soil. He had been brought up in Tennessee, got to be a bank vice president in Arkansas whence he was hired in 1922 by Lord & Taylor. Manhattan department store, as its treasurer. Five years later he became president of Gimbel Bros, store in Pittsburgh, there stumbled through a back door...
...Spain, then permanently to New Orleans. There at last he married and settled down on his own plantation. But a disastrous fire killed his wife and child. Anthony left civilization and took to the wilderness. Captured first by Indians, then by Spaniards who were rounding up interlopers on Mexican soil, he survived the long trek to Mexico City only to be condemned to a lazar-house. Here one of his early loves, Dolores, found him, married him; together they spent peaceful years in a remote mountain village. Before he died he had at last come home...
...bogs are to be found in every part of the world that are underpopulated, or, as still of course is the case in the Chaco, devoid of population. But it is not difficult to settle, as has been proved by the recent colonies of Canadian and Russian Mennonites. Soil is generally very favorable for agriculture. The Chaco wants ploughs, not machine guns. GEORGE H. PEARSON Asuncion, Paraguay...
...Karachi on India's west coast. For years Imperial has tried to extend its line to Australia, but the Indian Government stood in the way. Imperial might fly across if it wished, as do French and Dutch airlines, but it might not do passenger business on Indian soil. Last week came word that the impasse had been broken. From Karachi to Singapore a line will be operated jointly by Imperial and an Indian company. Meanwhile in Australia bids have been called for an Australia-Singapore service. Only Australian companies are eligible to bid; but one of the bidders...