Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, in Iowa's Mahaska County, one farmer let 176 of his 800 acres lie idle in the now-expiring soil-bank "acreage reserve," this year put only 14 acres in corn. In a move matched by many a neighbor, he decided after last week's vote to plant corn on 250 to 300 acres-18 times as much as this year. "If they want corn," said he, "we'll give 'em corn...
...nation's biggest single landowner (2,500,000 acres), has shown the way by distributing his vast farm properties to the peasants of about 300 of his villages. But the thousand families are cool to land reform. Even worse, landlords seldom reinvest their profits in upgrading the soil. Tenants, who can usually be dispossessed at will with no compensation for any improvements they have made, are understandably reluctant to make any. The Shah has struck hard at one landlord privilege by ordering an end to the "gifts" of cattle and food traditionally taken by the landlords from their peasants...
When Washington declared that it would defend West Berlin as if it were U.S. soil, Pravda jeered that "the creation of a war psychosis" could not keep the peace-loving Soviet Union from unselfishly handing over its control of the Allied traffic to West Berlin to its puppet government. A six-man Soviet-East German commission met in East Berlin to arrange take-over details. "Once again the eyes of the world are upon us," tough Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt (see box) told West Berlin's Parliament. "We have no weapons, but we have a right to live...
...known to the Greeks as the virgin huntress, she was from earliest times the patroness of pregnant women. Husbands made appropriate contributions, and Diana's priestesses inherited the jewelry, clothing and other possessions of women who died in childbirth. Many of these offerings were found in the silty soil of Vraona...
...profits in five years (see chart). Hog and poultry prices are expected to decline, and crop prices will be lower as a result of this year's record crop and surpluses. Next year's crop may be equally large, or larger, partly because the Government will scrap soil-bank payments to farmers for underplanting their acres, thus depriving them of $700 million in payments made this year. On the other hand, the Government will have to pay more in price supports in the months ahead to compensate for the surge in crop production. Yet despite the fact that...