Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WITH Ben-Gurion preparing to withdraw from Egyptian soil, the world's eyes swung to another defier of U.N. resolutions, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose country since 1951 has ignored a U.N. resolution to let Israeli ships through the Suez Canal. Would Nasser now agree to final clearance of the canal and negotiate an acceptable contract for its operation? Gamal Abdel Nasser is a man who once aroused universal admiration, then widespread concern. His brief career has now reached a fateful turning. For a new estimate of the 39-year-old dictator of the Nile, see FOREIGN...
...four months Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, basking in much of the world's indulgence, has played the role of a wronged man. But once Israel's invading armies leave his soil, it will be time to examine Nasser's own conduct, past and future, and take new measure of him. The world has known Gamal Abdel Nasser for only four years; few men have undergone more violent alternations of public reputation in shorter time...
...year; the broiler industry appears to be overcoming a surplus problem, and dairymen are producing and selling more than last year. The Government's price-depressing hoard of surplus wheat, cotton and corn is slowly being whittled away. And this year farmers are eligible for $1.2 billion in soil-bank payments...
Selove also stated that there was a tremendous variation in the amount of strontium 90 found in the soil. He said that the concentration depended on the amount of calcium in a certain area--there have been variations from the mean of as much as 5000 percent because of calcium concentration--and also that the amount of strontium taken into an individual's body depends on the form in which it is ingested...
...amount of immunity can save him from falling for Fawny May, a cotton farmer's daughter. Trouble is that Fawny is a born homemaker. Looking at the rich soil around the deserted house she wants them to buy, she exclaims: "Plant you a teacup handle here, next dinnertime you'd cut a set of china." Uncle Chunk has long since warned Polk: "A rolling stone don't gather no mortgages." So off they roll, to the Southwest, to California, wherever a crop is making. Author Williams' world is an inevitable reminder of John Steinbeck...