Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reminder of the Government's obligations. The future, said she, must follow three guiding posts: 1) China must become the economic, political, cultural and military equal of other nations; 2) the Chinese in occupied areas must be rescued and the Japanese must be driven from all Chinese soil; 3) a nationally elected People's Congress, the final stage of Dr. Sun Yatsen's three phases of national development (revolution, education, self-government), must be established and vested with the powers now closely held by the Kuomintang...
...first four groups wore drawn from the ranks of professional civilian engineers. After a short basic, period they were sent to Harvard. Highway engineers, soil conservation experts, and men from the Bureau of Reclamation were represented...
...studying Soil Mechanies at the Rotch various kinds of soils from all parts...
...dirty" job these engineers have to do, for their days in the lab are spent weighing soil under pressure, in water and dry. The primary purpose of the school is to give the men such a familiarity with soils that just by fingering it they can decide what type of planes could land safely...
Many of their afternoons are spent at local military airports with picks and shovels gaining familiarity with airport construction and soil composition. Soil types which can't be investigated, at hand have been collected and are kept in many bowls in the lab. Each day for several hours the men work with these soils to gain familiarity for later emergency decisions...