Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kukan--the heroic battle--is a vital presentation of all that the name, China, connotes--its soil and its people; its vast wastes and towering mountains; and its fight for freedom from Japan and the past. This saga of a nation struggling to be born, of a people trying to unite and find greatness is the story of Chiang Kai-Shek and the young Republic of China. It is also the story of war fought from Burma to Tibet and culminating in the bombing of Chunking. It has the guts that no other movie has and shows how terrible this...
Neither Firestone in Liberia, Ford in Brazil, nor Goodyear in Central America, he says, have been able to find a combination of soil, climate, and labor to compete successfully with the Far Eastern plantations...
Stalin sometimes let his mind play on Japan and his problems in the East. But how far away, how far ahead, did it pay to think? The crisis was on Russian soil, right now. And where was the great aid that Churchill and Roosevelt had talked about? So far he had received only a few squadrons of British planes and a few tankers of American oil. He was fed to his pipe-clamping teeth with talk...
Admitting that "hunger and internal confusion as aids in breaking the Russian resistance" were unpredictable elements, the Germans undertook a heavy and lengthy bombardment of the city. All day long-range Nazi cannon, skulking in ash-colored Karelian soil, cracked high explosives into Leningrad's defenses. All night the Eighth Air Corps and the ugly "black beetles" of the Luftwaffe's smart Richthofen Squadron dealt out destruction, until the night glowed red with fire and death...
...canal is nothing but a narrow ditch cut through high banks of sandy soil and rock. Its sides rise steeply to a height of over 200 feet, are nowhere faced with masonry to more than 50 feet. The British, knowing that peacetime rains used to cause rock slips which blocked the canal, figured that wartime raids could do the same...