Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the Plow" (TIME, July 26) interested me very much because I have an orchard and vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Calif., which I planted 18 years ago. I have not plowed this place for 15 years on the theory that plowing . . . would do more damage to the soil than good, as these mountains suffer every year from erosion. . . . My trees are more vigorous and produce more fruit than my neighbors...
Stalin, with lingering suspicions of the capitalist democracies and a bitter knowledge of the horror that war has brought to Russian soil, distrusts the U.S.-British policy of heavy bombing, believing that it is aimed at saving lives rather than crushing the enemy. Victory in his eyes calls for an immediate, all-out second front, regardless of casualties...
...Emerging from a long silence, the disbanded political parties of Rumania addressed King Mihai: Rumania is on the threshold of collapse, they said; Dictator Ion Antonescu is responsible. His policy lost us independence and the sacred soil of Transylvania...
Last week the top U.S. soil expert, Soil Conservation Director Hugh Hammond Bennett, saluted Faulkner. Bennett pointed out that some pioneering farmers (notably United Fruit Co. and some Cuban sugar-cane growers) have long used a system of cultivation like Faulkner's, called "stubble mulch." The moldboard plow, agreed Bennett, is doomed, except for some special crops and uses...
...stead, the Department of Agriculture urges farmers to practice "subsurface tillage"-a method using new machinery that cuts off weeds below the surface, leaves the soil with a fertile beard...