Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death at the Bolshevists' hands." And last week in Munich's Waldfriedhof, as 1,500 Eastern European exiles watched silently, Bandera's coffin, draped with the blue-and-yellow banner of Ukrainian independence, was lowered into a simple grave hallowed by an urn full of Ukrainian soil...
Like other writers struck by early success, Novelist Norman Mailer, 36, is fond of discussing his talent, often in terms that make it sound like a prize begonia. "America is a cruel soil for talent," he writes. "It stunts it, blights it, uproots it, or overheats it with cheap fertilizer." In this book, Author Mailer (The Naked and the Dead) sets aside the arduous business of novel writing and takes up horticulture. His first book in four years is a rock garden of schoolboy short stories, failed poems, fragments of plays, snippings from old novels and lumps from...
HAVANA, Oct. 26--Prime Minister Fidel Castro, in his angriest speech speech against the United States, tonight charged U.S. officials are impotently permitting planes to bomb Cuba from American soil...
Last week at Grand Ridge, Ill., Arthur Walter Seed Co. was offering farmers a pick-your-yield service. The farmer merely brings in a soil sample, writes down whatever number of bushels per acre he desires, and in half an hour gets back a seed and fertilizer prescription. Says Vice President Everett C. Walter: "It's just as easy to raise 100 bushels an acre corn as 50 bushels. The only chance is weather, and there is not too much chance in that...
...drive for growth in the '20s and '30s, writes Nove, "Iron ore or coal mines were 'creamed,' the best and most easily accessible mineral being taken as quickly as possible. The virgin lands campaign was launched with little consideration for the long-term problem of soil conservation. [There was] ruthless cutting of trees in the most accessible areas...