Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the expedition tried dragging powerful magnets over the ground, hoping to pick up fragments of nickel-iron. The soil around the Arizona crater is full of such stuff, but not one bit did they find near the Chubb Crater. Geologist Meen suspects that the Chubb meteorite may have been made largely of stone, which disintegrated on impact and drifted away as dust...
...department had wrapped up its own ideas in a book called the Family Farm Policy Review, which contained ample evidence of Agriculture's ample generosity. In fiscal 1951, for example, it had $257,250,000 to pay out in rewards to farmers for making soil improvements alone. This fiscal year, said the report, could be even more bountiful. The report blithely suggested that the Department of Agriculture 1) spend more money this year on research, 2) hire more people, 3) look into such possibilities as acquiring and distributing land for bargain sale to farmers who want...
...turned out in their Sunday best to hear the report explained, and as soon as it was over, began biting the hand that subsidizes them, with heated protests against "Socialism" and Government "interference." No one protested against interference in the form of price supports. It was outright subsidies for soil improvement-and the thought of the taxes they come from-that irked the solid farmers in Michigan's bean-growing district...
...justification," said Robert Meikle, who farms 200 acres, "for paying farmers for doing something they would normally do [e.g., liming the soil and laying drains]. Farming should be a respectable business with a respectable income for anyone who wants to work for it." Said Robert Kestner, a prosperous farmer from Memphis: "I'm afraid of what's to come. The Lord help us if we get a Socialist government. Why can't the Government leave the farmers alone...
...valor." "I now see a long winter before me," he wrote bleakly in September 1783, "and am to get through it as I can. I know the ground before I tread upon it; it is hollow, it is agitated, it suffers shocks in every direction; it is like the soil of Calabria, all whirlpool and undulation; but I must reel through it-at least if I be not swallowed...