Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here, in John Bull's tight little isle, where every available hand and bit of soil is producing food, U.S. and British troops are planting a cabbage patch. U.S. soldiers not yet abroad need not grin - they may soon be doing the same. Last week President Roosevelt said he did not see why troops in this country could not be furloughed to help out on labor-stripped farms...
...spend the time that it would take to bring Japan to final defeat merely by inching our way forward from island to island across the vast expanse of the Pacific. It would take too many years. Great and decisive actions will be taken to drive the invader from the soil of China. Yes, important actions are going to be taken in the skies over China-and over the skies of Japan itself. . . . Remember, there are many roads that lead right to Tokyo and we're not going to neglect any of them...
...southern position was guarded by the pillbox fortifications of the Mareth Line, built by the French atop high, naturally defensible escarpments. But the south appeared to be a likelier route for an Allied plunge into the coastal flatlands. The weather was wet, but the footing was better over sandy soil. And in the Allies' southern sector were the battle-smart veterans of the seasoned Eighth Army. With a strong show of artillery and tanks, Rommel tried to delay them. They edged...
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman, a chubby little man with twinkling eyes, looked down from the plane's windows on to the red & gold of Spanish soil, stretching below like a scarred and, crisscrossed piece of hide. From the air the land looked peaceful. But its people were sullen, impoverished, embittered, under a Fascist dictatorship which had claimed that the Spanish Civil War was a crusade for the Roman Catholic Church...
Their work is of the utmost importance especially in areas captured from the enemy. By quick tests these Soil Engineers decide whether a field is safe for Flying Fortresses or just pursuit ships, and on them rests the responsibility for a half a million dollar bomber...