Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...types of fungi: 1) parasites, which feed on living plants and animals; 2) saprophytes, which feed on dead organisms. Pleasant are some fungi, such as the mushrooms (commercially grown on horse manure) which decorate steaks. Valuable are others, like the bacteria which decompose dead organisms, fix nitrogen in the soil, promote fermentation.* Harmful to man are fungi which attack crops...
...detailed story: the British were rushing 300,000 men to Greece; 100,000 had already debarked, equipped with tanks, flame throwers, artillery and all the paraphernalia of attack. A "neutral diplomat" swore that he had, with his own neutral eyes, seen British soldiers step down gangplanks on to Greek soil and march off singing to their billets. The British were said to have landed matériel for five divisions...
Previously the Nazis, guarding against R. A. F. bombing, had removed their Danube pontoon bridges by day, replaced them by night, transported huge quantities of materiel onto Bulgarian soil. Telephone communication to Sofia was cut except for Government business. There were widespread arrests of "men with British interests." Agents were buying millions of Bulgarian levas (1?) for the Nazi quartermaster corps. On the day the pact was signed Hitler's forces crossed the Danube by pontoon, ferry and train. The occupation was advertised to the Bulgarian public, thousands of whom are violently anti-Nazi and pro-Russian, by squadrons...
...week's end Marshal Rodolfo Graziani reviewed the joint Nazi-Fascist force. A German officer shouted: "At the beginning of Italian-German cooperation on African soil, we swear to make the greatest effort for a joint victory for Great Germany and Great Italy. Long live Great Italy! Long live Great Germany...
...them. In Unoccupied France some hatred of Great Britain remains, both for France's defeat and for the blockade that has brought hunger and suffering. The people of Unoccupied France have put their faith in Marshal Pétain, who seems to stand for a France on French soil, even if it is an impotent France...