Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rather than sell their cattle, livestock-men are now busily building up their herds. At long last, they had excellent conditions for it. Good grazing land was plentiful. Parts of the Southwest had three times as much rain this crop year as last. Soil was moist for six feet down in some areas, and once-dry water holes were brimful again. Furthermore, standard-grade feed corn was selling in Chicago for an average $1.15 per bu. v. $1.31 a year ago, and cattlemen were fattening their herds at bargain prices...
Moscow had greeted the SEATO conferees with its standard warning to SEATO's Asian members that nuclear bases on their soil would expose them to "powerful retaliatory blows." It was a measure of SEATO's maturity, in its fourth year, that no member felt it necessary to reply...
...SOIL-BANK HANDOUTS will be boosted from $500 million to $750 million this year because so many farmers rushed to cash in on acreage reserve program, scheduled to expire in 1959. Boost will cut market for farm labor and supplies, pinch many rural merchants. Example: in Georgia each dollar paid by soil bank will take an estimated $3 to $5 out of circulation in farm towns...
...return for the right to establish its bases on Spain's strategic soil, the U.S. has so far given Franco $650 million in military assistance and defense support, another $264 million in economic aid that has helped build dams, factories, highways and housing. Critics have objected that the U.S. has thus bolstered Franco's position over the Spanish people. Franco retorts that Spain is the most staunchly anti-Communist of all the U.S.'s allies, has asked U.S. military experts to make a special study of Spain's "increased vulnerability" on the ground that U.S. bases...
...never had to make a speech") gentle Ian is thrust up the Rose-rigged ladder to the very verge of Minister of State for Colonial Affairs-where, abruptly, he rebels, resigns, retires to pig-farming and smashes his marriage. Author Gellhorn is working here in rather tired soil...