Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South and west of New York City, the Jersey Meadows stretch desolately. On the flat, salt-soaked tidelands, the reed grass is sharp-edged and bitter, and around its roots, the soot is thick in the spongy soil. Freight trains chuff across the flatlands; across them, too, each day, rumble the gritty, hard-seated trains of the Jersey Central and the prosperous Pennsylvania's Bay Head line, carrying commuters to the trim farms and tidy suburbs of New Jersey's shore towns...
...British Isles, now we got loans out everywhere. And what do we bring home? We bring home corpses, and I'm damned mad." Axel Nielsen, a used-car dealer, canvassed southern Michigan with petitions to the President which said: "Bring our boys and war goods back to American soil and let the other countries, one & all, paddle their own canoe . . ." Housewife Kathleen McLeese of Kansas City said: "If I were a soldier, I'd rather fight in Korea than in Independence, Mo." Said a San Francisco businessman: "The way things...
...wheat (Punjab 591). In the first season it yielded 43% more than the old-style wheat. Next year Punjab 591 was planted by entire villages, and even spread outside the experimental area. The increase went up to 63% when Holmes showed the farmers how to rotate their wheat with soil-improving legumes. With potatoes Holmes had the same success. A new variety increased the yield...
...turning plows and five-tooth cultivators. A simple form of thresher introduced by Holmes made it possible for his farmers to thresh their wheat crops in three days instead of ten. The seven days saved allowed many farmers to plow their land for the next crop before the soil under the wheat stubble got too hard...
...centuries the great Red River has swept its rusty silt into the blue salt water of the Gulf of Tonkin. On the rich soil thus built up have risen the twin bishoprics of Bui Chu (pronounced Booey Choo) and Phat Diem (pronounced Fat Zee-em). In a predominately Buddhist country and against the rising tide of Viet Minh Communism, they have established their predominately separate existence as independent Roman Catholic theocracies ruled by Monsignor Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem, and his protege Monsignor Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop...