Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where a plank bridge spans a small brook that runs into the Black Sea, two Turkish infantrymen stood guard this week. Their posture was rigidly prescribed: each had one foot on the bridge and one foot on Turkish soil, one hand behind his back and one on a rifle topped by a flat-bladed, freshly honed bayonet. Motionless, they stared across the brook into thick underbrush where no human figure was to be seen. They were two of the thousands of 12?-a-month Turkish mehmetciks who keep sleepless vigil over the 367-mile border which is the only frontier...
...Knock out the costly short-term acreage reserve phase of the soil bank and build up the long-term conservation reserve to encourage the retirement of marginal farm land from production for up to ten years...
...struck their cheerful terror until a plain-clothes deputy tossed a tear-gas bomb into the mob; then braves and Klansmen alike scattered. Soon state troopers sped into the field and disarmed them all. Happily the Lumbees jogged home, certain that the race-baiting bunch of newcomers to American soil would not mess around much more with Americans of a different brand...
Benson has fought to solve the farm surplus problem by long-term retirement of economically weak small farms. At the present time, under the acreage reserve clause of the soil bank program, such farms retire acreage one year, when market prices are low and support prices high; then produce at full capacity the next year when demand rises again...
...Congress to face up to some of its budget-cutting responsibilities. Among the possibilities: cut down on certain veterans' pensions in line with the recommendations of a 1956 commission chaired by Five Star General Omar Bradley; let the $500 million-a-year acreage reserve portion of the farm soil bank program lapse without renewal; reduce the federal share of contributions to public assistance payments (e.g., medical care and old-age allotments); and end federal spending in the fields of vocational education and such minor federal programs as water pollution control...