Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citizen Roosevelt might even have a Victory Garden soon. Mrs. Roosevelt planned to plant one on the White House grounds-if the Agriculture Department, skeptical of amateur farmers, decides that the soil is fertile enough to make a garden worth while...
...military sense the big news meant that 150,000-200,000 Jap fighters were now released, to be used on other fronts. But that was not the fact that struck home to the U.S. Not until the last burned-out man put down his rifle on the soil of a Bataan that was now Japanese did Americans learn their lesson...
...recounted Paul Bunyan's exploits in one of his own legendary stamping grounds, wooded north Michigan, while husky loggers clapped and yowled. They regaled Louisiana audiences with Creole songs. In their 7,500-mile, 21-State trip they warmed U.S. hearts with songs that were part of their soil and blood. Last week, when a dirt-stained bus rolled them from Greensboro, N.C. into Manhattan, the American Ballad Singers had wound up their first U.S. tour...
Along the Gulf Coast, from Florida into Texas, are nearly 200,000 scattered acres of tung plantations, out of 750,000 acres believed to be suitable for the culture. But the tung tree is hard to raise in U.S. soil and climate. It needs a minimum of five, a maximum of 15 days of freezing weather; virgin, acid soil; good drainage and a hillside location. It should have at least 40 inches of well-distributed rainfall each year...
This agrarian Life With Father (Literary guild selection for April) sells the program of the U.S. Soil Conservation in the person of an Oklahoma divine who was also a dirt farmer. It is written by his son Angus. Old McDonald was a man so canny and cantankerous that not only farmers but everybody else chuckle at his antics-the rather stirring antics of a tough old man practicing as well as preaching a primitive American philosophy: that use of the soil is a privilege, not a right, and that its misuse is a sin. The book also tells more about...