Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Germany stood all but alone. Finland was following Rumania out of the war, more decisively than had feckless Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS). With her went her priceless stores of nickel, manganese and cobalt. Fat, foolish Hungary lay open to the Russians. The "holy soil" of the Reich itself had already been torn by the tracks of U.S. tanks. The haze before the beast's eyes deepened. Soon night would shut...
...headlong pursuit by the Allied armies had all but wiped the Germans from the soil of France. They still held out desperately in the ports, determined to hamstring Allied supply to the bitter end. In tattered remnants of once-proud divisions they still fought bitter pocket skirmishes...
...this week the Allies had smashed deep into the Low Countries and U.S. forces probed at the outer hedgehogs of the Siegfried Line. This week battles would boil on German soil...
Tsitsin, a small, black-mustached scientist, showered with all manner of Soviet awards, gets $15,000,000 a year from the Government for large-scale studies in "grain economics for non-fertile soil." He has grown fruit on vegetable vines, vegetables on trees (e.g., beans grafted on willows, tomatoes on a South American fruit tree called "tsfamalda"). For 15 years he has worked toward a perfect wheat: one which would come up year after year without seeding, resist drought and disease, survive killing winters, wind and rain, yield at least 25 bushels an acre...
...Tsitsin thinks he almost has it-his No. 34,085 meets most specifications. This strain, a cross between wheat and couch grass grows summer or winter, is drought-and rustproof, pollenizes itself, thrives even in salty soil (producing salty wheat), and has a gluten content of 60%, equal to that of the best annual wheats. Experimental plantings have yielded two crops (totaling about 68 bushels an acre) a year. No. 34,085 still has some serious defects: it bears wrinkled grain, is hard to mill, is not as resistant to frost as Tsitsin would like. But foreign experts who have...