Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States interested in an obscure, faraway island in the Pacific called New Caledonia? Why must we be concerned about a port in West Africa called Dakar? How do different types of soil and varying weather conditions affect the defense and power of any country? . . . Geography as we must study it . . . is a study of differences in environment and their effect on men's lives...
...Filipino Army, trained by General MacArthur and led by its own officers, has put up a magnificent fight against the Jap invaders. Said Joaquin Miguel ("Mike") Elizalde, Resident Commissioner for the Philippines in the U.S.: "We will continue to fight for our native soil, foot by foot, on whatever fronts are necessary." But the Filipino Army, with MacArthur's USAFFE, is virtually defeated...
...tractor-drawn stone-picking machine has been invented, whose revolving teeth can remove as much as twelve tons of egg-to head-sized rocks per hour from the top three inches of soil. Produced by Otis F. Reiter, a onetime Maryland farm boy with a piercing memory of stone-picking backaches, the machine has been hailed by farm journals as the greatest agricultural invention since the tractor. In this machine some experts see hope for a revival of Eastern agriculture, whose decline they blame largely on stony soil. Stoneless soil is 18% more productive than soil 30% full of stones...
Materials & Men. The shortages which sprang from U.S. soil in 1941 like armed men from dragon's teeth took most businessmen by surprise. Ed Stettinius got his surprise as early as February, when the vast expansion of the plane program forced him to retract his previous reassurances and put aluminum, as well as machine tools, under the first full mandatory priorities. By year's end the defense demand had also elbowed civilian demand out of the market for copper, brass, nickel, tungsten, zinc, magnesium, tin, and even steel...
...pages Lanny, tempered beyond any further possibility of being a playboy, sits in the room next to the rescued but ruined Freddi, silently crying, and realizing, of his life and of Europe: "He had traveled here and there over its surface, and everywhere had seen men diligently plowing the soil and sowing dragon's teeth* from which, as in the old legend,-armed men would some day spring...