Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lakes, it became clear that Harry Truman was concentrating much of his fire on the Republicans' 1950 slogan: "Liberty against socialism." Time after time he cited instances in the past when "calamity howlers" had hung a "socialist" label on programs that were now farmer gospel-rural electrification, soil conservation, public power, flood control...
...already struck a rich supply of methane gas. But Standard has run afoul of the old Italian law, which gives the government absolute title to all oil and minerals discovered beneath the surface of the earth. Standard wants the law amended before it sinks any U.S. dollars into Italian soil...
Times copy is edited so that it "won't turn your stomach at the breakfast table." (An early slogan for the Times was: "Will Not Soil the Breakfast Table.") In the Times, bodies are never found "lying in a pool of blood," nor "badly decomposed" in the woods. The Times was net always so squeamish. Ochs once told an editor who complained that a certain story was too smutty for the Times to print: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...
...Announcing the isolation of viomycin (named for the violet color of the Cuban soil mold in which it was found), Chas. Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn reported that it had already shown promise in treating tuberculous mice and guinea pigs. Tests on humans are just beginning. Viomycin seems to work against tubercle bacilli which are resistant to streptomycin...
That same day, in Hong Kong, 83 Shanghailanders (including four U.S. citizens) walked down the gangplank of a Danish freighter and onto British soil. The travelers had gone by rail from Shanghai 700 miles north to Tientsin and thence 900 miles south to Hong Kong by ship. Their report on Communist Shanghai described a slowly dying city...