Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed (78-0) a $3.6 billion Agricultural Department appropriation, which restored the $500 million soil-bank program slashed out by the House at the height of its economy mood. The bill goes to a Senate-House conference where the Senate version is expected to prevail...
...speechless." But the students and veterans who had led the rioting were neither speechless nor ashamed. In a joint statement they proclaimed: "People of Algiers, once again you have displayed in a striking fashion your anger at too many unpunished crimes, and your determination to remain French on French soil...
...most effective ways of breeding enmity among friendly nations is to station the troops of one country on the soil of another in peacetime. The problem is compounded when the foreign troops claim extraterritorial privileges and hold themselves not subject to local law. In the overall grand strategy of the cold war, the U.S. has sought to devise a new and workable solution to the old problems: a worldwide network of "status-of-forces agreements" designed to cover the bulk of 700,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen stationed in 49 friendly countries...
...Clemens Herschel Prize for meritorious work in practical hydraulics went to Robert H. Stewart 1G, with second prize going to Robert J. Smith. Austin B. Mason won the Stanley George Elliott Prize for meritorious work in soil mechanics...
...currencies or covered by long-term soft loans. He estimated that some $100 million of such losses should be added to the outright subsidy in this year's export program, which he figured out at $536 million. On top of $636 million, he added $150 million in cotton soil-bank payments this year, $80 million in general Agriculture Department expenses for cotton, and $290 million in artificially inflated raw-material costs for American cotton-goods manufacturers...