Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seldom found except by occasional botanists who are digging for something else. The only exception is in the Northwest, where the presence of truffles is sometimes betrayed by excitement among the ground squirrels. Truffle hunters dig where the squirrels are digging, and sometimes find truffles under the scented soil...
...Truffle dogs need not be imported. Training them is not difficult. Since genuine truffles are expensive ($12 a pound, canned), the trainer may use cheese. He takes bits of ripe, strong Gorgonzola, wraps them in cloth and buries them in the earth. When the odor has seeped through the soil, he leads his dog within range. After many tries, the dog gets the idea and smells out the Gorgonzola. When he digs up the bait, the trainer pats him and feeds him a rewarding biscuit...
Greens & Beans. The land companies, owners of mammoth tracts of western acreage, started it all. New Englanders knew that their own land was stubborn and poor-and the ads spread the word (truly) of rich soil and (falsely) of good roads and easy fortunes. After the Revolutionary War, thousands of Yankees poured into New York and Pennsylvania. In a few years, the trek to Ohio was on. Stay-at-home Yankees ridiculed the exodus; Ohio Indians tried using tomahawks to stop it. But the wagons rolled on, and mushrooming towns grew to look a lot like old New England towns...
...Australia and gets her man. Any ordinary girl would have settled down and lovingly borne him a few nice children, but Jean is a more fearsome natural force. By the time she has done with her husband's district, it is in the grip of an industrial revival, soil conservation is breaking out all over, the cattle trade is expanding, new stores are sprouting like mushrooms. The only thing that saves the book from absurdity is Novelist Shute's lively discernment about people & places. The villagers who shelter Jean in Japanese-occupied Malaya are real farmers...
...empire. At his Rue de Varenne mansion the grandson of King Louis Philippe was holding miniature courts and receiving ambassadors from abroad, for all the world as though the Bourbons still reigned. To stem the monarchist tide, France's legislature passed a law ordering from France's soil forever all heads of those families which had ever held the throne of France...