Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses. Lumber production for September was three billion board feet, 14% less than in August. A decline in production of other much-needed housing materials-brick & tile, plumbing fixtures, gypsum board-was partially offset by an increase in production of hardwood flooring, cement, clay sewer pipe, cast-iron soil pipe, and asphalt roofing...
Eight score and nine years rolled gently over the gently rolling battlefield of Princeton. By chance, it was little built upon. This week, while the sweet gums turned as scarlet as the British soldiers' coats, the long-peaceful soil was dedicated as a state park. Said Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds: the University was "succumbing to nostalgia" in its bicentennial year. On the preserved battlefield, any lover of human liberties could look back with pride...
Balance Sheet. The idea swept the country. At present there are nearly 1,700 districts, containing two-thirds of the nation's farms. In the growing season of 1947, 100,000,000 acres will be cultivated scientifically to save the soil...
...this time a great idea had taken shape in Bennett's mind. Farmers would, he was sure, use science voluntarily if properly approached. He proposed that they be persuaded to band together in "soil conservation districts," each choosing its officers in a democratic election, and running its own affairs. Bennett's experts would help the districts as "land doctors." In their kits they had a dazzling array of medicines. For gullies, they described cheap, home-made dams and new plants, such as kudzu vine, to hold the sliding soil. For hilly fields they prescribed novel methods of contour...
Land Doctors. Bennett became a soil crusader. Year by year more people, and more important people, listened to his prophecies of disaster. In 1933, Secretary of the Interior Ickes made him head of a newly created bureau: the Soil Erosion Service. Two years later Franklin Roosevelt summoned Bennett to the White House, made him head of the brand-new Soil Conservation Service...