Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tons of warships. Yoshida's proposals drew angry shouts from Socialist and Progressive opponents, one of whom asserted that the Premier's budget had been "written in the American embassy." Privately, these opponents admit that they are only shadowboxing. They want U.S. troops to leave Japanese soil, but they know the only way to bring that about is for the country to become strong enough to defend itself...
...tried to shake off this unilateral attempt to recreate a Popular Front. Said he in his acceptance speech, as the Reds sat silent: "I wish to address our heartfelt and grateful salute to our French brothers and our Vietnamese comrades who are defending a sacred cause on the soil of Indo-China...
...horizon (topsoil) that they found was only two to three inches thick (Iowa topsoil formed under permanent grass is often 18 inches thick). Below this was sterile subsoil, and when the plow mixed the two together, the blend was low in nearly everything that a good soil should have. It was not the lavish virgin soil of popular fancy...
...Such soil could not support extractive agriculture, which takes nutrients out of the soil and does not replace them. Many New England lands that were treated in this way soon went back to forest. But since the development of scientific farming, most New England land that remained in farms has been cultivated intensively and intelligently. Chemical fertilizers, manure and cover crops have improved the poor virgin soil. Each year New England's farmers put more plant food into their lands than they take out. The result: a thriving agriculture that grows high-value crops on "manmade" soil. Maine...
When Fair Dealer Chester Bowles, onetime ad-agency tycoon, onetime OPA administrator and ex-governor of Connecticut, asked Harry Truman for the ambassadorship to India, he let himself in for some unexpected complications. Spending their first night on Indian soil, Bowles, his wife and their three younger children huddled together in one room of Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, awed and made uncomfortable by the five barn-sized rooms of the viceroy suite, in which their attendants had distributed them. Bowles faced his first formal call on President Rajendra