Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running broad jump. They saw little in Helsinki to remind them of a menace ever present. As in West Berlin, the people who live closest to danger are calmest about it. Less than a dozen miles from spotless, gleaming Helsinki itself, Russian guns firmly emplaced on Finnish soil are ready, if necessary, to reduce the pale architectural spectrum of Finland's capital to rubble. "Please don't write about that," a Finnish civil servant told a TIME correspondent in Helsinki last week. "We in Finland never mention Porkkala...
Porkkala is the name of a 150-sq. mi. enclave just west of Helsinki (see map) that Finland was forced to "lease" to Stalin by the Russian-dictated peace treaty of 1947. There on Finnish soil, behind a secrecy no Finn is al lowed to penetrate, the Russians maintain a division of troops and train their long-range guns on the water lanes to Leningrad. The Russians allow Finnish trains from Helsinki to Turku to pass through Porkkala, but Russian locomotives (actually U.S.-made, sent under lend-lease) pull them, and the windows are sealed with sheet steel...
Originally, the Indian zamindar (land agent) was a creature of the Turks, who ruled India in the 13th century. His function was simply to skim off a fat slice (often 50%) of the peasant soil-tiller's earnings, keep a cut for himself, and turn the rest over to his superior on the feudal ladder. Under the Moguls, who followed the Turks, India's peasants were systematically exploited but rarely dispossessed...
...Jewish delegates, followed by members of the town council, walked to the old cemetery. Quietly they chanted the archaic Castilian of the Sephardic prayers for the dead. As they prayed, workmen in a corner of the plot began to dig the foundations of a new building, wounding the soil of Judiz Mendi for the first time in 460 years...
...great Suiho power project on the south bank of the Yalu, keystone of the hydroelectric development which pipes electricity to the Chinese "Ruhr" in Manchuria, to Soviet bases in Port Arthur and Dairen, and to the Russian port of Vladivostok. It lies only 3,000 ft. from Manchurian soil. The bombers spared giant Suiho Dam itself...