Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...axmen, branding their appropriation cuts as false economies: "If the foundation of your house needs repair, or if the roof leaks, you know that you are wasting money, not saving it, by failing to make that repair." He put in this category Republican slashes which would curtail reclamation and soil-conservation projects, and force reduction in the number of customs and border guards, tax auditors and labor conciliators...
...expanded the Japanese system of government industrial and trade monopoly (sugar, camphor, tea, paper, chemicals, oil refining, cement). He confiscated some 500 Jap-owned factories and mines, tens of thousands of houses. As the Shanghai newspaper Wen Hui Pao remarked, he ran everything "from the hotel to the night-soil business." The Formosans felt like colonial stepchildren rather than long-lost sons...
...Colonia's soil is the loamy terra roxa (red earth) that Brazilians prize most. After two years' full operation, the farms, for which the Government gives seeds and advice, burgeon with fat crops of rice, 15-ft. corn, sugar cane thick as a truck driver's wrist, beans planted among the corn to keep the ground rich and productive. Says Sayão: "They don't mind planting vegetables, but are horrified at the idea of eating them. 'Makes you sick,' they say." But they are catching on, and on better-balanced diets already...
...Iowa farm are itemized with raw fidelity and strapping lyricism. Subtitled "a novel of faith in the earth," it is also a novel of bitterness over the gutting and misuse of the earth by first-and second-generation U.S. settlers. The theme is large, simple and an incitement to soil conservation. At times the treatment has an earthy swell and eloquence. But Author Feikema works his lesson so hard that before readers reach the end of the book, they will be worn...
...farm again. Pier was hardworking and resourceful, but he was also bullheaded. In the early '303, he refused to join his neighbors in the New Deal's corn and hog program. In 1936, the great dust storms ruined him. ("Fool. Such a fool. Man assumes that the soil is eternal. It is not. . . ."). Neglected and sick for years, Nertha died...