Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight ago, the Kremlin published its Dardanelles plans: it demanded joint control of the Straits with Turkey. Implied was the right to military bases on Turkish soil...
Just twelve months had passed since the launching of the strangest military occupation in history. In the postwar world twelve defeated nations have had conquering armies quartered on their soil. Japan, alone among them, appeared to be enjoying the experience. She had not, like Germany, been divided into zones, nor had she lost significant sections of her home territory. She had not, like Hungary, been systematically looted, nor did the triumphant enemy live off and destroy the land...
...victorious artist, a conscientious young father of four, stayed around just long enough to pick up his prize-a half-gallon aluminum night soil ladle. Then he collected his straw masterpiece and trudged off to set it to work in his rice paddy...
...busy thoroughfare, and is consequently being run over constantly by omnibuses and motor-lorries." In the mechanized 20th Century, the land bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa is busier than ever. Now it is not only a military highway and a vast airfield. It flanks the Suez Canal. Its soil is crossed by oil; 42% of the world's proved oil reserves are puddled below the deserts of Iraq, Persia and Saudi Arabia. One of the vital pipelines from the British-controlled Iraq fields stretches across Palestine to Haifa. A convenience in peacetime, the pipelines are a vital necessity...
...miracle worked by sun, soil, rain and the hardworking U.S. farmer was almost awesome. For four years of war, despite woeful manpower shortages and the hazards of frost, drought, insects and disease, the nation's farms had produced bumper crops with machine-like regularity. Now, in defiance of the odds, the land was heavy with crops once more. They were so prodigally good that the U.S. would be able to go on feeding half a world and still provide bigger meals for the dining-room tables of its own wellfed people...