Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even where the soil is fertile, the only wealth yet tapped is rubber. For a few brief years at the turn of the century, when rubber sold for $1 a pound, prodigious fortunes were made by rubber barons who hired natives to slip through the jungles and tap wild trees (which the Indians had known as "weeping wood"). But first, plantation rubber from the Indies and then synthetic rubber from the U.S. cut the price. Today the Amazon valley is barely struggling along with a temporary subsidy guaranteeing 50? a pound-more than twice the world price...
Guests in Charge. Next day the fat of international friendship was in the fire. With more anger than accuracy, some newspapers charged that a platoon of U.S. paratroopers was maltreating Mexicans on Mexican soil. Mexican reporters said they had been menaced by "machine guns and large combat weapons." Powerful Excelsior said the newsmen had been mistreated "simply because they were Mexicans...
...indignation was quickly fanned by traditionally anti-U.S. elements. The Sinarquista national committee publicly protested "the violation of our soil." Right-wing Catholic university students staged a street demonstration...
According to the grasshopper map published each year by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the most threatened area this summer is in Montana, near the Canadian border. But last year's grasshoppers laid their eggs in the soil of many western and midwestern states. What the young hoppers need is a good long spell of dry weather to nurse them along to destructive maturity. The grasshoppers that do the most damage are primarily a semidesert species. Wet weather blights them in youth...
...Dropped an atomic bomb on Russian soil...