Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seedlings from the cold and or rain did not fall to give them moisture when they needed it in spring. When the farmer went forth in the early May sunshine, instead of finding his flat fields covered with a lush green growth of young grain, he found the soil all but bare on 13,000,000 of his 40,000,000 acres. Last week's report showed that 32.2% of last fall's plantings had been abandoned, an all-time record. Kansas, which harvested 240,000,000 bu. in 1931, is expected to produce only...
...German dye trust and new Nazi chairman of the Committee of Action for the Protection of German Labor. "We are not to be fooled by Socialist foxy tricks," said he. "With the disappearance of the Socialist unions, the Social Democratic party will be permanently deprived of the soil in which it lived. . . . I alone will have the full direction of the labor front, which is to be newly constructed." Again carefully following the Mussolini model, Nazification did not stop with the seizure of the unions. At the other end of the economic scale it was announced that the powerful Federation...
...Dred Scott, Missouri slave, sued for freedom on the ground that two years' residence with his master on free soil had made him a citizen. In 1857 the Supreme Court denied his plea, held the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional. That decision stripped Congress of its power to pass on slavery in the territories, helped bring on the Civil...
...readers of As the Earth Turns will be reminded that farmers' lives are long, farms' lives longer; that depression and prosperity come and go but farming goes on forever. As the Earth Turns, May choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, is no Growth of the Soil but it is a solidly conceived, pleasantly written, hopefully colored record of Yankee farm...
Mark Shaw, Maine farmer, had a big family, as farmers should. Not all of them stuck as close to the soil as he would have liked. Ralph went off to be an aviator, and turned out to be a good one. George was shiftless, lazy, a loud talker, always in some kind of avoidable difficulty with his crops. Olly was frail; he kept his end up at harvest, but his mind was on debating triumphs at college, a lawyer's future. Mark's second wife would have been an invalid if they could have afforded it; pain made...