Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from house to house and shelter to shelter all through the worst of the Jap air raids (during one horrible bombing the body of a Chinese woman was blown 20 yards straight through his open window). This week, when he landed with our first airborne troops on the sacred soil of Dai Nippon, he must have been comparing the rubble of Tokyo with the ruins he had seen so often in Chungking and Liuchow and Nanning...
...Pacific went on to see it raised over the home islands of Japan. At Yokohama's New Grand Hotel he was embraced by his old commander, sat down to dinner served by bowing Japanese. There was a pistol at his hip. To U.S. correspondents on Japanese soil Skinny Wainwright said: "It's good to be back a free man and an American soldier wearing a gun again...
From the nine farm houses of Geetingsville the story hummed out into the Indiana farmlands. Soil-grimed men muttered to themselves: "It can't be so." Not the Bobby Colby they had known: he had gone to church regularly, did his farm chores all right-except that he would not even kill the chicken for Sunday dinner. The Rev. Lenn L. Latham said: "Some people say they think that psychologically the Army made a killer...
...Major General Joseph M. Swing, and some infantrymen of the 27th Division. This week tens of thousands more (including the dismounted ist Cavalry Division) landed from transports, swelling the body of troops toward the 500,000 or more who will land in weeks to come on the sacred soil. The occupation of Japan had begun...
...salted celery plant produced by treating soil with 1,000 Ibs. of salt per acre before planting (developed by Wisconsin Farmer Nick Engel...