Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force base at Lakenheath, England, was greeted unenthusiastically by the British press-mirroring an anti-missile feeling among both Labor and Conservative leaders, who fear an all-out commitment to missile defense. Fitted out with a thermonuclear warhead (which stays in U.S. hands), Thor can blast from British soil 15 minutes after the first alert, minutes later impact hundreds of miles inside Russia. Reliability, now an acceptable 50%, will be increased in later arrivals. Estimated date of readiness of Britain's first Thor squadron: December...
...Amoy harbor only 2½ miles from shore.) Moreover, since Formosa itself was under Japanese rule from 1895 to 1945 and has a strong separatist tradition, the islands of the Quemoy complex-together with Matsu and a handful of other islets to the north-constitute the only indisputably Chinese soil remaining in Nationalist hands. To hold these largely symbolic specks Chiang Kai-shek has crammed them with 95,000 troops...
...yield more moisture than it received. An almost snowless winter gave way to an arid spring; by June topsoil began to blow in a grim reminder of the Dirty Thirties. "Every time there was a sprinkle." said a Moose Jaw farmer, "I'd go out and kick the soil. All I got was a cloud of dust...
...next 30 years. The strontium 90 rise in the next 70 years will vary in each country. For milk-drinking Americans, it will average an estimated .16 rem (or roughly the present dosage from X rays). For rice-eating Japanese, whose crops draw in more strontium because their soil lacks calcium, the per capita increase will be nearly...
Peanuts & Problems. Unfortunately, only Houphouet-Boigny's Ivory Coast and Touré's Guinea have inspired much confidence so far. Though Senegal was the first territory to be colonized, its economy still depends mostly on peanuts-a crop that gradually exhausts the soil. Mauritania, which has only four towns of 3,000 people or more, is a vast desert whose rich deposits of iron and copper ore are still to be exploited. The Upper Volta has as many livestock as people, and its workers must migrate from the territory each year to find jobs. Niger, the largest territory...