Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wheat: meeting export goals will depend on favorable weather, a conservation program. High production is no undue drain on fertility, but plowing up grazing lands for more acreage seriously increases the dangers of soil erosion...
...standard of living, our economy in general is physically capable of providing the resource requirements of a considerable program of foreign aid. . . . [But] with or without a foreign-aid program, this country faces a pressing urgency for expanding its conservation practices . . . for preserving the fertility of its soil and the future of its forests.. . . and for extending its efforts to discover and develop new sources of supply for many of its basic raw materials...
...Atomic Soil. As TVA administrator, David E. Lilienthal was once the bogeyman of private power magnates. As chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Lilienthal spoke soothing words in Detroit to free enterprisers. Reporting that commercially feasible atomic power was probably at least a decade off, Lilienthal added : "... This atomic industry can never flourish and grow and find its proper place . . . unless it sends its roots deep and wide into the . . . soil of competitive private industry." Suiting action to words, Lilienthal appointed seven industrialists as consultants on atomic power...
Planting Time. It had been a whopping year. But in a literal sense, the sky might turn out to be the limit of such prosperity. It was much too bright. Last week was two weeks past the time to plant winter wheat, but the soil was hard and dry; there was little of the subsoil moisture that makes for banner crops. The last good sod-soaking rain had been in September's first week. From the north Texas and Oklahoma wheat plains came disturbing news: planting was far behind schedule; some farmers were seeding dusty fields. There were...
...problem must be attacked at once on three fronts: 1) economic and financial, 2) military, 3) political. Since the essence of the problem is the ejection of every armed Communist from the soil of China, an intelligent project can be prepared only on the basis of an estimate of the time it will take to win the war. American military experts believe that this may take as long as three years. The Chinese are more optimistic. But let us accept the American estimate and try to sketch a Three Year Plan and estimate its cost...