Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were U.S. citizens who had spent their lives on U.S. soil -farmers who tilled the rich brown loam in the Sama Clara Valley, fishermen riding the slow swells off San Diego, humble shopkeepers in the little stores of San Francisco. But they learned last week that, in a nation's hour of peril, having been born a citizen is not enough. So they began to pack their keepsakes, lift their slant-eyed children on their arms, and start on the long migration east across the Sierra Nevadas, to dreary inland country far from the blue sea. They were...
...Industrial Revolution, British-Indian tariffs have shaped India as a raw-material producer for British industry, a market for British finished goods, and persistently cracked down on Indian industry. Machine-made British goods drove India's ancient handicrafts out of business, forced millions back to the overpopulated soil...
...survivor becomes, prematurely, the darling of the Nazi radio ("one Nazi against 11,000,000 Canadians"); a lone Canadian Army private (Mr. Massey), fed up with guarding the Chippawa Canal, polishes the Nazi off in democratic fashion (fists) before he can reach the sanctuary of U.S. soil...
...When London dock authorities opened 50 cartons marked "razor blades" they found nothing but black soil. The blades had been dumped on the black market...
...Though they spend their lives on the bottom of the sea, well protected from rain, oysters grow plump in rainy seasons, lean in droughts. So claimed the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station last week. Reason: rain washes minerals from the soil into sounds and ocean bays, where they fertilize the microscopic plants which oysters...