Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pacific, and "Great Britain of course" in the Atlantic. He would protect the Suez lifeline with troops, if necessary. He would allow the Army "occasional extensions . . . into Europe, Asia and Africa," but "I do not believe that in time of peace we should commit American troops to continental soil...
When the returns were in, President Quirino took what comfort he could find. "The election," said he, "shows that democracy really works on our soil. Democracy will stand here...
...later divorced the grocer, but she remembered the tomatoes, even when she went to work selling securities in Wall Street. In 1934, when a tariff sent the price of Italian tomatoes skyrocketing, Tillie began to think of growing them in the U.S. Everybody told her it was impossible ("the soil isn't right"). But on a trip to Italy, she got seed and talked an Italian importer into staking $50,000 on a project to grow them in California. There, she persuaded farmers to undertake the experiment. It succeeded; pear-shaped tomatoes now make up about 10% of California...
Postwar Britain proved a rocky soil for a Socialist Jerusalem. The lower classes ate better, but the middle class was leveled flat. Millions enjoyed better medical care (the Tories had to learn that false teeth and free specs aren't jokes to people grateful for them), but the government lived beyond its means. Even the doctrinaires learned that nationalization-cures nothing. The best of Labor's leaders died (like Ernie Bevin). wore themselves out (like Sir Stafford Cripps). or proved inadequate forthe highest tasks (like Herbert Morrison at the Foreign Office). Clement Attlee. conscientious and Christian, carried...
...simple instrument, invented more than 40 years ago, is still used all over the world. Power companies and other water users no longer have to guess how much water the snow will give them. By following the professor's rules, and adding other data such as soil moisture and expected precipitation in the spring, they can estimate the runoff within...