Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed a $90,069,139 deficiency bill which provided, among other things, for soil conservation, 45 new agents and five clerks in the Secret Service to protect the President and his family amidst "conditions in this country arising as a result of the wars in Europe...
...Every man and woman, and every acre of the soil of England, must play a part for victory. You can save millions of tons of shipping by a great food production campaign...
...citizens continued to be put on the spot by all sides of the warring nations. Almost daily the casualties of Scandinavian shipping mounted until the score stood at 92 merchantmen sunk, 753 seamen killed-all by the Nazis. In the East the Red Army moved ever nearer to Swedish soil and Finland's calls for aid caused serious internal unrest. In the West the Allied Powers actively questioned Scandinavia's interpretation of neutrality. "It is certainly darkening up here," observed the Stockholm Tidningen...
...peace likely? As long as Japanese soldiers remain on South Chinese soil, no. As long as the Japanese refuse to discuss terms with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek himself-not the "Chungking Government"-no. A remote chance for peace (for a time) lies in the Japanese withdrawing to the five occupied northern provinces, the Chinese conceding them. But if the war drags on-for six months, a year, two-Japan may slip off the rope to the end of which she has so nearly come. If that happens, if Japan's military economy collapses, then all Hirohito's horses...
...Geophysical prospecting for oil (recording the underground travels of artificial, explosion-made earthquakes) is relatively new in petroleum technology; geochemical prospecting is newer still. The geochemists pick up samples of the surface soil at spaced intervals, e. g., every tenth of a mile, and analyze them for significant hydrocarbons. An American Chemical Society publication declared that geochemical prospecting shows promise of being a more certain test for underground oil than artificial earthquake analysis...