Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Susan Homans Woodruff, 71, graduate (1890) of Smith College, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Sprightly, blue-eyed granddaughter of I. Smith Homans, who founded the Bankers' Magazine, Mrs. Woodruff was a schoolteacher for 14 years, bought a farm and sponsored a back-to-the-soil movement in Huntington, L. I. A lecturer on trade unions and women's rights, she has visited Soviet Russia five times to study "the new type of woman...
...Southeastern England. For centuries men have been accustomed to describe it as the political, financial and cultural centre of the British Empire. Its military geography was generally dismissed with one word, invulnerable. Across its wind-whipped moat-the English Channel-no invader passed to establish a position on British soil in nearly 900 years, except with the consent of feuding Britons. Yet in this area, at Pevensey in 1066, William and his mailed Norman horsemen beached the open boats in which they had crossed from the estuary of the Somme and marched inland to conquer England. And thrice since then...
...town. The demand was naturally refused. Then, according to the Japanese legend, the Chinese wantonly opened fire on the innocent little servants of the Son of the Sun, and obliged them to fire back-and therefore obliged Japan to send about 1,125,000 armed men on to Chinese soil to establish a New Order in East Asia. Thus began the war in China. This week the China incident is three years old. In that time Republican Spain, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Norway, Denmark, The Lowlands, the Baltic States, even the French Empire, have all succumbed to treachery or superior military...
...long, camouflage-dappled touring car Benito Mussolini last week ventured, four days after fighting ceased, into the thin slice of Alpine territory which the French, retreating before the Germans, yielded to his soldiers. It was his first visit to French soil since becoming a dictator 18 years ago. More daring last week -and less lucky-was bronze-bearded Air Marshal Italo Balbo, one of Mussolini's original Quadrumvirate in 1922, "exiled" since 1933 (when he won great publicity for a mass seaplane flight from Rome to Chicago) as Governor and Military Commander of Libya...
...seize Iceland, Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada announced that a Canadian force had landed at Reykjavik, home of the world's oldest parliament (930 A.D.). Should the Germans arrive and fight, the Battle for Iceland would bring World War II within 2,100 miles of U. S. soil...