Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your Science section [TIME, Sept. 3] records as "other inventions announced last week" the invention by one Nick Engel of Wisconsin, of "pre-salted celery" produced by treating soil with 1,000 lbs. of salt per acre before planting...
...grown without artificial salting, in the valley where the recession of prehistoric Lake Bonneville to what is now known as the Great Salt Lake deposited natural salts in the land, leaving .4 of i% of salts, more than is permissible for many crops. Nick's experiment simulated Utah soil, but he failed to import Utah climate, which provides for the growth of Utah's huge stalks of crisp, white, stringless sweetheart celery...
Unmarked by war save for a barbed-wire fence along its eastern frontier to keep war criminals out, the peewee principality of Liechtenstein (area 65 sq. mi., pop. 11,500) last week coasted calmly into the problems of peace. No invader had threatened its soil or sovereignty, but new ideas had spilled over from neighboring Italy, Austria, Switzerland...
...crater itself seems a lake of green jade shaped like a splashy star and set in a sere disc of burnt vegetation half a mile wide. From close up the "lake" is a glistening incrustation of blue-green glass 2,400 ft. in diameter, formed when the molten soil solidified in air. The glass takes strange shapes-lopsided marbles, knobbly sheets a quarter-inch thick, broken, thin-walled bubbles, green, wormlike forms...
...East Friends. Major Eichelberger also observed closely his allies, the Japanese. Clearly they were on a mission of empire, stirring up trouble as an excuse to stay on Russian soil and establish title to some real estate...