Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since the winter offensive began on December 19, the Red Army has recaptured 77,220 sq. miles of territory, 13,000 hamlets and towns, vast areas rich in iron ore and manganese. Three-quarters of Russia's invaded soil has been retaken...
From a trench freshly carved in the fat Ukrainian soil, Colonel General Pavel Rot-mistrov stared across the plain. In the distance smoke rose from burning villages. Buglike Russian tanks crawled forward, angrily broke up German counterattacks. Overhead, Stormoviks bombed and strafed. Before Rotmistrov's eyes ten encircled German divisions were being mashed out of existence...
...careful study of plowing v. other cultivation methods was made on Iowa experimental farms by U.S. and State soil experts. The new methods were disc harrowing (advocated by Faulkner), "lister-ing" and "subsoiling"-all of which loosen the soil without turning it over. The object is to leave on the surface a stubble "beard," both to check erosion and provide decaying organic matter as fertilizer. In the Iowa test these methods: > Produced bigger soybean crops than plowing, slightly smaller corn crops.† > Saved one-third to half of the man and machine power required by plowing. > Reduced soil erosion from...
Many Roman Catholics believe that the root of modern social unrest is the separation of city people, especially industrial workers, from the soil. In Ohio last week a Catholic Rural Life Bureau director was engaged in a small back-to-the-land experiment to bring them together. The experimenter: Father Joseph V. Urbain, pastor of Queen of Peace Church, Millville (30 miles north of Cincinnati; population...
Governor Vivian, excited by the Denver Post's black gothic headlines and red-tempered editorials, had called the session to pass a constitutional amendment to keep Japanese nationals from buying even one foot of Colorado's fair soil. About 1300 Japanese, pushed off the Pacific Coast by the Army, have been resettled in Colorado since Pearl Harbor...