Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November, from the Isthmus to the Horn, the sun slanted more kindly on 96,000,000 humans. Since four out of five of them depended directly for their lives on what the sun and soil and water gave them from their labors to eat, this was for most their hopeful season. Clockwise from the ten republics came the reports...
...crops were being gathered and they were good. On the humid shores of Lake Valencia sugar was being cut and corn harvested. The beans of coffee and cacao were stripped from highland groves in the northwest. But, as usual, the rusty soil of Venezuela had not produced enough. Given sufficient agricultural machinery from abroad, it might be five years, announced Secretary of Agriculture Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa, before the nation could feed itself...
Meantime, Caracas boomed. Attention turned from the old pursuits of the soil to the speculations encouraged by the country's 1,000,000-barrel-a-day oil industry. Caraqueñas feverishly built houses, streets, schools, soda fountains, bars, movies, hotels...
...with South America's most exciting hydroelectric development. Even with abnormally high wages (78? a day), it was still difficult to keep the 1,300 Indian laborers steadily on the job. Some part of each year, in spite of the deadly verruga flies and the bone-dry soil of the western Andean slopes, they had to go back to tend their meager mountain farms...
Next week will see a seven man Varsity running on the foreign soil of Van Cortlandt Park in New York City in the traditional Ivy League Heptagonals, which since the beginning of the war have included Army and Navy to make a total of nine college on the roster. Harriers Gurley, Cogan and the other top men will get another crack at their major H if they can squeeze into the first seven places...