Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snow lay white again upon the stony soil of New England, the grey distances of the plains, the towering Western mountains; once more poinsettias bloomed in the South's red soil. In Boston's fabled Louisburg Square, and in every other U.S. city and hamlet, carolers would sing this week below candlelit windows...
...there was also no doubt that when Devers' men reached the enemy's main defenses they would be up against the same sort of grim battling that Lieut. General George S. Patton's bigger Third Army had run into when it reached German soil along the Saar River. There, last week, the Americans were slowed to a painful crawl by a torrent of steel. At one point the Germans hit back at the rate of 250 shells an hour. Devers' and Patton's adversary, General Hermann Balck, was fighting smartly with what...
...troops pushed quickly inland. The firm, dry soil made Mindoro seem like heaven after the mud of Leyte. Within three days they were eleven miles inland and had seized San Jose and its airdromes, while U.S. and Aussie engineers began work on other airfields. On Mindoro's flats and in its valleys there was room, and need, for plenty of them...
...Japanese plant, grown in the Orient for its edible tubers (roots) and hemp-like fiber. In the U.S., where it was first grown in 1895, it has been known chiefly as a fast-growing porch vine. But southern farmers now cultivate it as a field plant to cover eroding soil. Planted from "crowns" (roots and buds), it spreads quickly, putting down new roots like strawberry runners. Its big leaves, shed each fall, eventually cover the ground with a thick, flaky carpet like a forest floor. Because it may be winterkilled by hard frosts, it has so far been grown only...
Kudzu not only stops erosion but so enriches the soil that when plowed under, it increases corn yields by two to sevenfold. As rich as alfalfa in protein and carotene, kudzu leaves can be used for grazing or cut as hay. Dehydrated, they also make a fine breakfast food, according to enthusiasts; some kudzu growers have gone so far as to concoct a recipe for Kudzup...