Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hatred of the West -and especially the hatred of Britain-in the Near and Middle East. The Iranian crisis was still bubbling when Egypt exploded with the announcement that it was abrogating its 1936 treaty with Britain. The Egyptian government demanded that British troops get off the soil of Egypt. Since the British were guarding the Suez Canal, they refused. The Egyptians rioted, perhaps in the belief that the U.S., which had opposed any use of force in Iran, would take the same line in Egypt. The U.S., however, backed the British, and the troops stayed. But now they...
...Agriculture Department is the first to admit that it needs better crop-reporting. The board makes its guess from reports by its 60 field representatives and 20,000 volunteer farmer-reporters, who send in information on acreage planted, soil moisture, weevils and weather. Before the war, the board sent out roving teams to cover the cotton belt and doublecheck estimates. They were equipped with "crop meters," i.e., gadgets attached to car speedometers which recorded the front footage of cotton planted. But in the past few years, the board's budget has been raised only slightly (to $2.8 million), while...
Over the centuries, Camiguin's craters benevolently poured forth soil-enriching lava which made the island abundant beyond the asking. But in periodic moments of ire, the volcanoes visited havoc and death on the people-always, said the elders, because God had been displeased by younger Camiguenos who grew lax in their churchgoing, forgetful of the feast days and neglectful of the sign of the cross. When his children did wrong, an elder would glance fearfully toward the horizon and mutter, "The volcano will get angry...
Dioramas are the joint result of a patient group effort. Perfect shading of the background picture into the real soil of the foreground is the first essential in achieving realism. This and other near-perfections were accomplished by the artists who made San Francisco's new exhibits. The animals were shot by a Berkeley mining engineer and big-game hunter named Leslie Simson. He found a home for the carcasses at the academy, and when he died in 1940 left $100,000 to insure their proper display. Academy Director of Exhibits Cecil Tose, who did the taxidermy himself, directed...
...bloom of apparent health, but it was a hectic flush: the islands were not prepared to stand on their own economic feet. The sugar kings and wealthy traders had prospered, but thousands of tenant farmers were left in discontented peonage. The seed of freedom had sprouted, but the soil of order on which freedom must grow had been neglected. Above all, in setting a target date for independence so far in advance, the U.S. had not reckoned on World...