Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most notorious gang calls itself "the Russians"). No one dares go out at night. Black homes, like white homes, are barricaded. At dusk, crime begins. People are murdered in the streets, knifed, "chopped" with axes. Clothing is taken from the victims and the bodies are left for the night-soil removers to find. Though most black gangsters now carry guns, there is little shooting in the locations : the guns are reserved for use against white householders...
...have about 17,000 acres of developed pump irrigation farms around the middle of the project region which, with the U.S.B.R. experimental farms, are proving the versatility, fertility and adaptability of the soil and climate. You have one of the best articles we have seen, but we groan to think of the flood of land inquiries pending...
...almost any man with a shovel, a bottle of brandy and a passion to be rich could go digging for diamonds in South Africa and hope to make his fortune. Today, most diamonds are found in mines thousands of feet underground. What is left of known diamond-bearing top soil is probed by individual diggers who average between $15 and $800 a year. Last month the vast De Beers Diamond Co. threw open to prospectors 950 acres of a farm called Nooitgedacht (Never-thought-it-would-come-true), 20 miles from Kimberley, last remaining De Beers diamond grounds. Eighty...
Moist Magic. It will be very green, for irrigated land outproduces most land that is only "sky-watered." Desert soil has not been leached by heavy rain of its soluble plant nutrients. The sunlight keeps plants awake and growing. Most important of all, a skilled irrigator can give his plants just the right amount of water. Natural rainfall seldom does this; most seasons have wet or dry spells that check plant growth...
...bureau's experts will divide the land into "farm units" (40 to 160 acres according to the quality of the soil) big enough to support a family comfortably. No buyer may have water for more than one unit. If Congress continues this policy, * the bureau hopes to see the whole area divided into prosperous one-family farms, with none of the gang-worked "factories-in-the-field" so conspicuous in other irrigated parts of the West...