Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggest that the greater feeling of belligerency in the South springs, perhaps unconsciously, from very practical causes. It is the only part of this country that has experienced invasion within living memory, and it has had bitter proof that the war that is waged on one's own soil is the most costly of all. It is, moreover, the only part of this country that has known what it is to live under a military occupation, and the Germans have given ample proof that they have improved not only on the methods of General Sherman, but also on those...
...Greece seems like old stuff. We tend to forget that each hour of bombing causes more loss of property than the fall of the Tacoma bridge. The phrase "severe damage to personnel." so carelessly bandied around by newspaper strategists, actually means that more blood has been poured onto the soil of Europe...
...greatest battle of World War II may still be fought on English soil. If it is, one of many reasons that Hitler may be beaten will be the new and growing British People's Army opposing him: Brit ain's Home Guard. And one of the many obscure heroes responsible for Hitler's defeat will be the most urgent of Britain's advocates for a People's Army: Thomas H. Wintringham...
Cornelius Arzberger, a Commercial Solvents Corp. researcher, cultured from Louisiana cane-field soil a new bacterial species which ferments sugar to produce industrially useful solvents. He gave it the jaw-cracking name of Clostridium saccharo butyl acetonicum liquefaciens. Then he tried to patent it, as a plant. The patent examiner threw out his claim...
...make his super-plastic. Ford is going to the soil. One million plastic automobiles (average annual Ford production) would consume 50,000 tons of synthetic chemicals, 170,000 tons of agricultural products. Possible makeup: 100,000 bales of cotton (U. S. annual output 12,000,000 bales); 500,000 bushels of wheat (current production 792,332,000 bushels, surplus 250,000,000); 700,000 bushels of soybeans (81,541,000 bushels grown this year); 500,000 bushels of corn (ten-year average yield 2,299,342,000 bushels); lesser amounts of hides, lard, glue, pine pitch, sugar-cane alcohol...