Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same. Off went the grapes, the best first, to be pressed in cellars at the foot of each small field. From the vats within these reeking temples of Bacchus rose the sibilance of juice astir in natural ferment. Once again began the special miracle which the mysteries of soil, sun, slopes and ancestral skills have annually brought to pass in Burgundy since the Romans first planted grapes on the Golden Slope. Andre Noblet, red-faced cellar-master of the Romanee-Conti vineyards, whose 4½ acres produce the world's most prized red wine ($11.57 a bottle...
...concentration of strontium in bones is confused with the concentration in soil. This error contributes a factor...
...music world's most talented and tempestuous diva, Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, winged from Italy to touch native soil for the first time since she held eight outnumbered process servers to a draw in a Chicago Civic Opera House fracas (TIME, Nov. 21). Sued for $300,000 by a Manhattan attorney who keeps on claiming that she owes him 10% of her earnings since he launched her in 1947 (when she scaled almost 200 Ibs.), slim (5 ft. 7 in., 132 Ibs.) Maria will make her Metropolitan Opera debut late this month. No process servers greeted...
...soil bank is a direct handout which merely reduces the surplus wilthout attacking the basic problem. Just how much it affects production is, moreover, questionable. At best it is a temporary measure which drains millions from the economy by literally paying men for doing nothing...
...Republican farm platform, unfortunately, stops once the inefficient farmers have been forced off the market. The soil bank and flexible supports will have cut production and the number of producers. But there is no concrete proposal on what to do with the unemployed farmer. To avoid a depression, as well as for humanitarian impulses, these men must be re-employed...