Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land where nothing succeeds like excess, Comrade Kadar proved himself adept. Said he: "We have stepped on the soil of the Soviet Union with our hearts filled with confidence, for we have come to our most faithful, our truest friends." Kadar thanked the Russians effusively for their bloody intervention in Hungary last autumn, in which an estimated 25,000 Hungarians lost their lives. "The whole world now knows," Kadar said, "that every socialist state can count on the help of the Communist camp and above all of the Soviet Union." Then Kadar and hosts drove off for "ideological and economic...
...Considering legislation to aid Midwest corn farmers, the House ended a hectic two-hour session by voting down Democratic and G.O.P. proposals alike, offering no aid at all. Determined to include feed grains in the soil bank, farm-area Democrats defeated a plan to raise corn acreage limits 14 million acres, lower the support price 5? a bu. but require corn farmers to take soil-bank payments on some cropland. But the rural Democrats' move to include oats, barley, rye and sorghum in the soil bank was knocked down by a coalition of Republicans and city Democrats fearful...
...they said, on "Government rent." Ex-servicemen heading for the state V.F.W. convention joked about the wheat crop they had "already harvested." Some vacation-minded farmers counted their "Florida money." One and all, they were talking about the payments they get from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's soil bank for taking land out of surplus crops...
...County (county seat: Council Grove), Lawyer Marlin Brown and a partner got 5½% insurance-company loans to buy eight farms, 1,500 acres, for an average $62.50 an acre. They plan to farm only the best 200 acres, but can put 771 of the poorer acres into the soil bank's "conservation reserve." For covering this land with Sudan grass now and sowing a permanent cover of bluestem and grama grasses next year, they expect the Government to pay upwards of $15,000, about 80% of the seed and sowing costs. This subsidized sowing qualifies the land...
...satire does not grow readily from Germany's heavy soil. One notable postwar exception is Forward, Gunner Asch! (TIME, Oct. 29), which aimed its laughter mostly at the petty tyrannies and tribulations of noncoms. Now another German satire boldly advances to spoof the other end of the Wehrmacht hierarchy. To General von Puckhammer, peace is a prelude to war, life a dress rehearsal for death. He regards a soldier's calling as holy, for he believes that God is a fellow Prussian. When his monocle glints, junior officers blanch. But just as no man is a hero...