Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just one week after the Administration's new $1,250,000,000 soil bank opened for business, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson reported some heartening transactions. "Good progress," said he, "is being made in Kansas, Illinois, Texas and Iowa." In Iowa alone, between 12,000 and 15,000 farmers have signed up for the plan; county agents are guessing that as many as 75,000 of Iowa's 192,000 farms will participate in the plan before the July 20 deadline...
...Benson did not say was that in Iowa, as in other drought-ridden states where a man makes a decision with an eye on the weather and a hand on his pocketbook, thousands of canny farmers are treasuring options that will permit them to withdraw their land from the soil bank by July 20 if they change their minds. Reason: if enough rain falls before that date, many will go ahead with their crops in anticipation of a higher per-acre income than the soil bank would pay (an average of $44 an acre) if the crops were plowed under...
...usually phlegmatic English turned out in milling droves to see Ben Hogan play for the first time on English soil. At the Canada Cup tournament at Wentworth, the galleries jostled each other (and Hogan); some fell from trees, and one man toppled off a ladder and broke his leg. Ben Hogan responded with a wintry smile, then knocked out three birdies on his first four English holes. "An amazing genius," cried British newspapers. Teamed with Sam Snead, Hogan won the cup for the U.S. and captured the individual prize for himself with a seven-under...
...authority of her seven years of on-the-spot observation as the wife of a British official. Read simply as social prophecy, this novel disturbs with the suggestion that the seeds of a whole generation may already have been planted in the subsoil of neo-Naziism−bad soil, even if not bad seed...
...military junta of 38-year-old Lieut. Colonel Nasser could boast of considerable progress. It had overthrown a corrupt monarch, broken a sordid feudal aristocracy's long-held power over Egypt's politics, disowned the murderous fanaticism of the Moslem Brotherhood and driven British troops from Egyptian soil after 74 years of occupation. It had imposed some stability. It had done less well in grappling with the ancient miseries of one of the world's poorest countries. By making his deal for Communist arms, Nasser had ended Egypt's dependence on the West and established himself...