Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future, workers were promised a 48-hour week, abolition of child labor, equal pay standards for men & women, medical and health benefits. Youths 18 to 20 would serve on forest and soil conservation projects. There would be Govern ment supervision of schools, and Confesor hoped that within 25 years illiteracy (reduced from approximately 90% to 51% since the U.S. took possession in 1899) could be eliminated. Water and land transportation would be socialized, and large retail cooperatives established...
...last week U.S. soldiers had been on German soil a little more than five months. In Aachen, Roetgen, Eilendorf, Cologne they had seen the ruined face of western Germany. And they had seen thousands of German faces...
...Ithaca, N.Y., last week Cornell Entomologist William E. Blauvelt announced the development of a unique insecticide designed for flowers alone. The soil around a plant is soaked with a mixture of sodium selenate and water, which penetrates to roots, sap, foliage and buds. Then, says Dr. Blauvelt, "the bug bites the plants and the plants bite back...
...this fight. We still have many enemies. The devil, the world and our own lust have assumed great power. . . . Liberation was accompanied by the burning and destruction of houses and homes, of everything the people needed to sustain life. In many places churches . . . have been destroyed. The free Norwegian soil has become the scorched earth. . . . Every head of a Christian family is a pastor in his own home. . . . The [ministry] must feel . . . that in every hut he has helpers...
...Amiable, grey-haired Frances ("Fannie") Bryson of the New Orleans Item selected Our Daily Bread, a heavily stylized landscape of Deep South farmland at sundown, replete with wheeling buzzards and eroding soil. The artist: Mississippian John McCrady...