Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poverty is an old story among the sandhills and pine barrens in South Carolina's Barnwell County. For more than a hundred years, small farmers have scratched a poor living out of sandy soil, have watched spring droughts brown their corn and boll weevils eat their cotton. But never before had people felt as beset and unwanted as they did last week...
...highstrung American Legionnaires in Dallas heard that Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel was scheduled to be soloist in the cantata Alexander Nevsky, a eulogy to a 13th Century Russian patriot, they stirred up civic feeling against the lyrics. Everybody was happy after the word "Russians" was changed to "people," "Russian soil" to "fertile soil," "Russian valor" to "native valor...
...Naum Jasny, author of last year's massive Socialized Agriculture of the U.S.S.R., has demonstrated how geography and climate greatly limit Russian agriculture. Corn is barred to all of north and central Russia by the cold, to most of the south by lack of rainfall. The Russian soil, starting at the city of Astrakhan at the mouth of the Volga and proceeding northwest, is at first semidesert, then improves to chestnut soil (dark brown soil), then to rich chernozem (fertile black soil), and finally declines to thin podsols (grey, leached, acid soil) - see map. Russia's huge long...
...comparison with the U.S. shows a basic weakness. Eastward from Salt Lake City (comparable to Astrakhan in temperature and moisture) the series of soil types is virtually the same as in Russia...
...there are two differences: 1) the temperature stays mild and steady (mean annual temperature 55° F.) along most of the U.S. soil range and 2) rainfall increases toward the seaboard where it is most needed. In Russia, the mean temperatures are much lower and rainfall is only moderately higher in the poor-soil areas of the north. In the U.S., climatic factors become more favorable as soil gets poorer; in the U.S.S.R. soil and climate become less favorable together. Agriculturally, Russia runs the wrong...