Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directly detrimental to the war effort. The training of skilled laborers in NYA schools is undoubtedly a war activity, for without those skills the basic defense industries would be forced to close down. CCC boys are admittedly of military age, but few Congressmen have dared to assert that soil erosion and wastage of natural resources are of no bearing on wartime supply problems. Considered in its longterm affects, the bill is even more foolish. Several tens of thousands of college students are directly dependent on NYA funds for their educations. If the money is cut off in an over-zealous...
...Australia will] rock the enemy back on his heels" . . . though the cost may be "the end of much that we have painfully and slowly built in our 150 years of existence, but even though all of it go there will be Australians fighting on Australian soil...
...fact was that the Germans still held nine-tenths of the ground they had taken in Russia, whereas in 1812, twelve weeks before this time of year, the Grand Army of Napoleon Bonaparte had quit the French-drenched Russian soil...
...came from Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, a onetime mild-mannered trade-union journalist who in his country's greatest hour of need found words that rolled like Walt Whitman's: "We have no limits. . . . We have no qualms. . . . We will not yield a yard of our soil. . . . We fight with what we have and what we have...
...best of his knowledge, Morize said, the recent British raids on Paris have done nothing to alienate the feelings of the population. "They consider it a sad, tragic necessity," he stated, revealing that the French have often sheltered British aviators forced to land on their soil, and that French women decorated the graves of British pilots killed in action...