Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward Vivian Robertson, 61, Wyoming, liberal, Welsh-born owner of Cody's finest general store and livestock ranch. Suave, handsome E. V. Robertson, who once refused a $7,500 AAA soil-conservation check, is no machine politician; he has his own ideas about progressive government. He will also have one of the Senate's oddest hobbies: making ranch-building models out of matchsticks...
...broad lawns on the Jardin d' Ambohijatovo on Poincaré Square, where nearly the whole town could see it. Native gardeners were ordered to wash away the Cross with water; it hardened. They dug up the kaolined turf; the Cross remained boldly outlined in the red soil. They filled it in with new grass; for seven days it showed starkly until the grass grew green. Thereafter the new turf grew more green than the old, and the Cross still showed...
China. ". . . No foot of Chinese soil . . . should be ruled from now on except by the people who live on it. . . . There is in China a great reservoir of admiration and affection for the U.S., but the reservoir is leaking fast. . . . We have talked a lot about our production figures, but some of our Allies have seen very little of our actual arms...
...therefore a bright military jewel which, with Gibraltar and Suez, gave the empire control of the Mediterranean. This was not to say that the Maltese themselves remained altogether satisfied with the latest rulers. The Maltese farmers, descendants of the Phoenicians, illiterate, pious, aloof, tilling the thin crust of soil which lies on the island's rock, did not much care. But the city Maltese, largely descendants of the retinues of the Knights, fervent Roman Catholics, clever and temperamental, felt uneasy under this new and beefy rule...
...Commander in Chief of the British Army on the disastrous field of France. He shone as a systematic organizer rather than as a brilliant tactician. When he returned to England from the shambles of Dunkirk he was given the job of organizing England for the defense of her soil from the invasion that appeared about to engulf...