Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major campaign contribution of Candidate Dewey to date has been to bring down to concrete instances the human distress he finds represented by astronomical figures, without making the prospect so hopeless as to contribute to the defeatism he condemns. At Portland, heart of the region where soil erosion has been a popular subject, Candidate Dewey lifted the campaign up a notch by talking about the erosion of capital: the U. S. industrial plant wears out at the rate of about $6,000,000,000 a year, said he; in six years of the New Deal the grand total of capital...
...behind to join it. Then another and another and another. These were just the tactics the British had used in the Somme, and, as had the Germans in 1916, the Finns were forced to fall back. Fighting fiercely with their puukos (hunting knives), they sold their lives and their soil dearly...
...ground that such action was 'an attempt to force America into an imperialistic war.' [Cheers] My friends, that reason was unadulterated twaddle, unadulterated twaddle. . . . [Boos, shushes, dead silence.] That American sympathy is 98% with the Finns in their effort to stave off invasion of their own soil by now is axiomatic. That America wants to help them by lending or giving money to them to save their own lives is also axiomatic today. That the Soviet Union would, because of this, declare war on the United States is about the silliest thought that I ever heard advanced...
Only two comparatively intact German warplanes had been brought down on British soil. All others damaged either crashed in flames, sank at sea or limped home. It had been rumored that the German planes had "puncture-proof" fuel tanks which, though riddled, enabled them to fly beyond capture. Last week Britain released details of the puncture-proofing, learned by experts from examination of a Heinkel bomber downed in Scotland's Lammermuir Hills in the war's eighth week...
...first time since they sailed last August, Samuel E. Morison '07 professor of History, and his Columbus Expedition set foot on the soil of the United States. They docked in New York this morning aboard the United Fruit liner Veragua...