Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the old dust-bowl region-spreading outward from the area where the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles hang together-hundreds of soil-conservation districts had been formed; farmers had "windstripped" their fields by alternating bands of cropland with long panels of soil-anchoring grassland. They had planted tree windbreaks, built broad terraces to catch snow and water, and planted crops on long-range rotation schedules...
...sent gigantic plows into the poorest lands of the plains to reap quick profits from the opportune cycle of heavy rainfall. Now, in the new dryness, their fields were being abandoned to the drought and wind. If the dry cycle continued through one or two more years, U.S. soil conservationists warned, the pale yellow ghost of the grim dark days could turn both frightening and real...
Sixty percent of U.S. farmers are unfit for their jobs because they hate their animals and hate the soil, Farmer-Author Louis Bromfield said in Kansas City. "A farmer to succeed needs to be part businessman, part specialist and part scientist." In Rome, Renzo Rossellini pooh-poohed reports printed by a Communist magazine that his brother, Director Roberto Rossellini, would renounce all his U.S. earnings from the picture Stromboli "for reasons of artistic dignity...
...same sources point out that Pick-Sloan soil conservation is so deficient that engineers expect the project's dams will be silted up within a few years...
Both the physical and emotional setting of the picture are excellent. The young boy, like a seed trying to push roots into barren soil seeks affection, companionship and even faith in his environment. But because Berlin is so desolate and its people reduced to such hopelessness, the boy finds no answer but death. Producer and director, Roberto Rossellini's photography captures perfectly the demolished physical atmosphere of war-term Berlin, while the plot progression skillfully works out the emotional sterility of most of the characters...