Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farms around Benares, India's holy city, are nourished by the sacred Ganges. The soil is black and crumbly, as rich-looking as chocolate. Cane grows as high as a man's head. Water is knee-deep in the lush paddies. It is a happy land, where plump little children stand beside the road, laugh and wave to passing automobiles, where slender farm girls, with water jars balanced gracefully on their heads, smile shyly before covering their faces with colorful head cloths. Old men sit in the doorways of mud huts, contentedly puffing on long-stemmed hookahs...
Waiting for Trouble. By comparison, Feisal's Iraq (175,000 sq. mi.) is a land of promise. It has resources (an oil reserve of five billion barrels), money ($112 million in oil royalties annually), inherently fertile soil and plenty of water for irrigation. Nevertheless, 90% of its 5,000,000 inhabitants are illiterate, and most of the farms are in the hands of usurious absentee landlords. Communist agitators and nationalist fanatics are riding high...
TIME and Apostle Benson apparently accept the McKinley-Hoover philosophy of the inequality of man-that the man who uses his hands, whether with a machine or in the soil, should not be considered a participant in the bounty of America. It is conveniently forgotten that the farmer's aid from Government is an infinitesimal fraction of the great bounties bestowed upon manufacturing and business interests from Grant to Hanna and from Lodge to Hoover...
...born in the walled city of Derry and, as a Catholic in Protestant Northern Ireland, learned to fight early. He quickly became a single-minded Irish Republican. In 1939, when the illegal "Irish Republican army" declared "war" on the British Empire, he volunteered to fight on British soil. He slipped into Britain, brags that he helped try to blow up power plants. De Valera, who thought the I.R.A.'s methods were no way to win Irish independence, had McGuinness slapped into internment camp for two years when he came back. Says McGuinness: "My stay there wasn't wasted...
...guise of the German army) beat the Czar's armies in World War I. Stalin took up where Peter left off, got Russia sufficiently re-Westernized by 1941 to defeat another Western invader, Nazi Germany. But no sooner had the Germans been cleared from the mother soil than the West shot out ahead again with the atomic bomb. "So today, for the third time, Russia is having to make a forced march to catch up." Any Hope? Not only Russia, but the World's other West-fearing civilizations -Islam, India, the Far East - have adopted Western technology...