Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last summer Norman H. French of Casper, Wyo., water expert of the U.S. Point Four program, went into the desert with a gang of Arabs and some U.S. earth-moving equipment. Jordan gets some rain, but it usually comes in violent cloudbursts, and the hard soil sheds it like a slate roof. Instead of sinking in, the water roars down the wadies (dry washes) and is lost in the sand...
...dikes. Then they waited for a cloudburst. On Oct. 30 the heavens opened in fine Biblical style. The water filled pools behind the dikes; it ran around their ends and was distributed over the flatland by the waiting ridges. In a week it was all absorbed, saturating the soil five-feet down. Beyond the dikes, the soil was as dry as ever...
Automatic Gardener. Texas Lawn Sprinkler Co. is selling an electric control that automatically turns on an underground sprinkler system and waters a lawn when it needs it. Two electrodes keep track of the moisture in the air and soil can be set to turn on the sprinkler system if the moisture falls below a certain point. Price of the sprinkler system varies according to the size of the lawn, e.g., about $2,000 for a 100-by-200-ft. lawn. Price of the control...
Soluble Plant Food. In time for spring gardening Du Pont will market a plant food which can be sprayed on to plant leaves or lawns without danger of burning them The solution is absorbed through the foliage, and eliminates the need of drenching the soil to feed to the roots. A 1½-lb. can costs...
...delegations including the Canadians, British and French have protested vigorously against the process. Their protest is, at bottom, a deep concern with any extension of McCarran's investigation to other parts of the U.N. Although Lie has protested that the Secretariat works in a "glass house," and is "unfertile soil" for subversives, he has not resisted the Committee's pressures. The French and British protests arise from the uncertainty at where the investigation, if extended, would stop. They also come from the fear of continued damage to the United Nations that such an investigation in the hands of the Committee...