Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cape Colored live in fear of the Skolly Boys, a gang of Negro gangsters whose favorite murder weapon is a bicycle chain. In Johannesburg, it is the "Russians" who terrify white & black alike, chopping their victims with axes and leaving the bodies to be carried away by the night soil removers. In the Rand goldfields, police estimate, there are three murders every two days; in the concrete "locations" where the black miners live, separated from their families, prostitution and sodomy flourish...
Just before World War II, scientists found that the sheep disease was caused by lack of cobalt in the soil. When minute amounts of a cobalt compound were added to the sheep's salt, the mysterious disease disappeared...
...dosing the sheep with chemicals did not help the vegetation of the desert. So the scientists went to work again. Recently they found that lack of zinc in the soil was what sickened the plants. Some crops needed copper too. So the scientists added small amounts of the two elements to test plots, which responded at once with good crops of oats, clover and alfalfa...
...private instruction, more than 95% of the people become converts. In groups, the percentage is much lower; out of a class of 60, only 15 may be baptized. Sheen vigorously disclaims any personal credit for these conversions. He considers himself merely "a spiritual agriculturist [who] tills the soil. All the tilling in the world would make no difference if the seed had not been dropped...
...star, Balcon found that his pictures, made with no concession to American tastes, were more popular in the U.S. than British-made imitations of the Hollywood product. Ealing's top successes in the U.S.: Passport to Pimlico (a small section of postwar London is discovered to be foreign soil), Kind Hearts and Coronets (a likable young man kills off six of his relatives), Tight Little Island (a whisky famine makes criminals of a whole island), Lavender Hill Mob (a mild-mannered clerk pulls off a bank robbery...