Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grassy hill outside Kunming, four U.S. flyers, killed in a Jap bombing raid, lay newly buried in the damp China soil. Back in the barracks, their friends read the ugly facts in the news bulletin. Some were men from the Pennsylvania coal fields. Their first reaction was bewilderment: ("Why do they let John Lewis push them around that way?"); their second, cold fury ("I'd just as soon shoot one of those strikers as Japs...
...whole Red Army should consolidate and develop the successes of the winter battles, so it shall not surrender to the enemy a single inch of our soil, be prepared for decisive battles with the German Fascist invaders and display a stubbornness and stanchness in defense that is characteristic of the men of our army. Display offensive resolution . . . crowned by the encirclement and annihilation of the enemy...
...theatricals, and the House Committee wishes to point out that officers eating there are welcome to use the library, recreational facilities, and the pool rooms. The Club has opened its dining rooms for the use of officers attending Harvard with Engineering 270 and 260, and those attending the Army Soil Engineering course...
...With a Purpose. Kenneth Anderson brings to the First Army a cosmopolitan point of view which it needs-fighting as it is with French and Americans against Germans and Italians on French, and perhaps eventually Italian, soil. His background is broad. He is a Scot. He was born in India on Christmas, 1891. He was educated in England at Charterhouse and Sandhurst. He fought in France, Syria and Palestine in World War I. Between wars he traveled widely in the Middle East, from Tibet to the Mediterranean. He has spoken French since boyhood and has a good working knowledge...
These developmental projects include urban redevelopment; express highways through and around our metropolitan centers; reorganization and rebuilding of our terminal facilities; the development of our largely undeveloped river valleys, including hydroelectric power, reforestation, soil conservation, flood control, irrigation projects, sewage disposal projects, and cleaning up of polluted rivers...