Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before World War II, the U.S. Army began experimenting with water culture at isolated outposts such as Wake Island, later carried the experiments on at Ascension Island and Iwo Jima. In 1946, it started hydroponic installations for U.S. occupation forces in Japan, where tillable soil is scarce. The farms are run by a peppery, 58-year-old horticulturist named Kendrick Blodgett, who has been growing vegetables out of water and chemicals for 15 years...
...first time in 127 years, Colombian troops marched off last week to fight on foreign soil.* At a field Mass under the colonnade of the national Capitol in Bogotá, President Laureano Gomez presented battle colors to the Batalión Colombia, a 1,082-man combat team of volunteers for the war in Korea. Colombia is the 15th nation to send ground troops to Korea, the first Latin American country to join in the fighting...
...threat of World War III has given the economy a temporary lift. The war, Argentines feel sure, will not be their war; ever since sentiment flared up last summer against sending even token forces to Korea, Perón has proclaimed that Argentines will defend their own black soil, and no more...
Boasted one TV executive: "We'll follow MacArthur from the time he arrives until he's down to his shorts in his hotel room." The television industry almost lived up to the threat. From the moment the Batoan touched U.S. soil at Hawaii's Hickam Field to the triumphal procession through Manhattan's ticker-tape blizzard five days later, TV kept its relentless eyes on General Douglas MacArthur...
...more outstanding boys in their congregations who might be candidates for the ministry. Then, at a big get-together in Indianapolis, the boys were to be exposed to the arguments for devoting their lives to the church. Nothing high-pressure, though, said Bishop Raines-"We prepare the soil and plant the seed and then let God's sunshine do the work...