Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second, recent developments prove that the clean-up part of our job is well on its way . . . Part of that assurance comes from our new soil bank . . . This year the soil bank is retiring over 12 million acres and earning 500,000 farmers more than $260 million. When next year it retires 40 million to 50 million acres, overproduction will start coming under control. That means better times for every farmer...
...will administer vigorously the soil bank, a good Democratic idea...
...summed it up: "The farmer just isn't getting a fair share of our national prosperity." The Democratic platform, according to Adlai, points the way to better days on the farm: 90% parity, more and easier credit, extension of production and marketing agreements, promotion of Eisenhower's soil bank, which Stevenson called "a good Democratic idea." To these proposals Stevenson added one of his own, pitched straight at his corn-and-hog-growing audience: special payments to hog growers to encourage early marketing and ease seasonal price fluctuations...
Natural Resources. Republican "giveaways" must be stopped, and the policies of conservation "which were in effect for years before the Eisenhower Administration" must be restored. Watersheds, public lands, national forests and parks, minerals and the soil must all be protected more rigorously against those who would exploit them. "This administration," said Adlai at Denver, "shows tender solicitude for the great private corporations but thoughtless disregard for the public's property, our public forests, our public lands, our national parks and our precious resources...
...fields, stream beds, limestone pits and lake bottoms of Mexico, Guatemala and British Honduras, archaeologists continue to reap a rich harvest of the New World's antiquity. There was a time when the artifacts, pottery, votive offerings and idols reclaimed from the soil were handed over to children as playthings or used as targets for Sunday pistol practice. But today archaeologists are alert to seize them as invaluable clues to mysterious, pre-Columbian cultures that send their roots back some 30 centuries. And art lovers now view them as art expressions of rare value...