Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uncle Sam is strong in peace and war simply because of his abundant natural resources, coupled with industrial know-how. Therefore, wise use of our soil and water resources is a "must." Yet our productive topsoil that feeds half the. world is eroding away. Clear water streams that industries need for production are clouded with pollution and silt. Water that is needed for food production is lost in floods . . . We continue to cut more trees for lumber than we plant. In other words, the nation's most valuable strength is ebbing away-and needlessly, because most of these resources...
Some of them paid smugglers $10 to sneak them over the line in automobile trunks. But most simply walked to the east or west of the International Bridge, jumped across the narrow New River, crawled through holes,in a 10 ft. wire fence, and scrambled up to U.S. soil. They were the prey of countless enemies. Robbers had killed some of them. Disease killed many more. Sometimes the unwary died sneaking rides atop 12-ft. hay trucks, which sped through 13-ft. underpasses on the highways...
...Mexican migrants rebelled at delays and red tape. U.S. farmers, by & large, boycotted the agreement too. They had come to consider the wetbacks as a cheap, natural resource, as rightfully theirs as rain or good soil. Forced to choose between lawbreaking or paying legally imported Mexican "Nationalists" a fair wage, many farmers chose, without hesitation, to break the law. After all, wetbacks would work-and are working-for as little as 20? an hour, a wage comparable to that skilled labor receives in Mexico.They do not argue, do not agitate, do not complain; if they do, they can always...
...hunting lodge in the forest at Marly-le-Roi, near Versailles. But every August, for a real vacation, they go back to the rose-walled house in Muret, close by the swift-flowing Louge. This is the France which Vincent Auriol, with a Frenchman's passion for the soil, loves best...
Between 1630 and 1640, some 140 Cantabrigians stepped on to American soil. At the beginning of the decade, John Winthrop arrived and became the first governor of Massachusetts. Three years later came Thomas Hooker, former Dean of Emmanuel College, who eventually trudged off into the wilderness to establish the first settlement in Connecticut. Meanwhile, Cantabrigian Roger Williams was off in the direction of Rhode Island and "a third New England state had been brought to birth by a Cambridge graduate...