Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...none has been a more dramatic figure, few have been more popular with their men and the Russian public alike than barrel-chested, black-haired Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky. He combined many characteristics that Russians love: energy, muscular strength, stubborn calm, youthful daring, earthiness. He was up from the black soil, a worker's son, an orphan at nine, a shepherd in the Ukraine, a cadet at Kiev Military School, a total product of the Soviet state...
...this move was as perfect as the Kremlin's recognition of its puppet Polish Government, 24 hours before the Red Army offensive into the Reich. The Warsaw Government's President Boleslaw Bierut was specific about the meaning of the move. Said he to Allied correspondents: "On Polish soil there should be a Polish administration regardless of the opinions that may be expressed at the international [Big Three] conference''. He added that he did not believe that any of the Allies "will be willing to interfere." (This week the Big Three agreed on a modified Curzon Line...
...fighting near Strasbourg. Ranked a lieutenant colonel in the French Army, 49-year-old Malraux, who was once punch-drunk with politics, is now soberly concentrating on military matters: "I cannot see why we French must be so occupied with politics while the Germans are still on French soil." Marlene Dietrich, wearing a fleece-lined, ear-muffed pilot's cap, paused in her U.S.O. tour of Belgium, braced herself for the usual souvenir-snatching. To A.P. War Photographer Peter Carroll, she said: "The airborne boys . . . asked for my garters. What do you want . . . my scanties?" Said practical Photographer Carroll...
...flame along the ground between rows, burns off weeds without harming the stouter stalks of crop plants, costs only one-tenth as much as hoeing. ¶ Calcium cyanamide. This chemical, long used as fertilizer, has recently proved a potent weed destroyer when applied to the soil in extra-heavy doses before planting. Chief users so far: tobacco growers. ¶Oil. California vegetable growers who have tried spraying the soil with a light oil report it highly effective against weeds in carrot and onion fields. ¶ Borax. In heavy applications, this chemical sterilizes the soil against weeds for two years...
...kills the toughest U.S. weed-the perennial wild morning glory (also called bindweed). It is also deadly to poison ivy, poison oak, sumac, horse nettle, chickweed, thistles, plaintain, dandelions, ragweed. But it is harmless to animals, is not inflammable, does not corrode sprayers or reduce the fertility of the soil...