Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin." Declared he in his special message: "The Muscle Shoals development is but a small part of the potential public usefulness of the entire Tennessee River. Such use transcends mere power development; it enters the wide fields of flood control, soil erosion, reforestation, elimination from agricultural use of marginal lands and distribution and diversification of industry...
...moist raw surface, absorb nutriment, proliferate. In a short time the islands of growing skin touch each other, merge and make a sightly new skin. Dr. Hermann finds that which way the skin flakes fall does not matter. Like plant seeds they orient themselves, grow outward from their "soil...
President Roosevelt had outlined the measure to Congress as follows: "I propose to create a civilian conservation corps to be used in simple work, confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control and similar projects. . . . This type of work is of definite, practical value as a means of creating future national wealth. . . . I estimate that 250,000 men can be given temporary employment by early summer if you give me authority to proceed within the next two weeks. . . . This enterprise will pay dividends to the present and future generations. . . . More important will be the moral and spiritual...
...Stratford, Tex., Farmer Ed Hart found a 4-lb. metallic mass which seemed a fragment of the meteor. The material was cold and not embedded in the soil. But green wheat and grass around the lump were scorched...
...trip through a part of new Russia. "Soviets on Parade" opens with a ten minute review of industrial and agricultural Russia. It is interesting to see what Stalin's government is doing to commercialize and make scientifically minded a people whose past has been deeply rooted in the soil. One sees how an agrarian Russia has been pulled into a mighty vortex,--one whose ceaselessly grinding wheels make an American shudder and think how pleasant serfdom must have been for the Russians compared with this new system. Yet, in observing the expressions on these laborers' faces...