Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both praise and criticism for the new bill. The deciding factor in his mind was its soil-bank provision, which offers $1,250,000,000 in payments to farmers who agree to take crop lands out of production and place the acreage under soil-building cover crops or trees. The soil bank, said Ike, will "check current additions to our price-depressing, market-destroying surplus stocks of farm products. It is a concept rich with promise for improving our agricultural situation...
After a conference with the President, Ezra Benson announced plans for making immediate soil-bank payments to farmers who withdraw land from crop production this year. Benson's move was specifically authorized by the new bill, although Congress had refused to go along with the Administration's request for 1956 payments to farmers contracting to enter the soil-bank program in 1957. Benson's schedule of payments was generous: if based on the average yield over the last five years, it would offer $22 for each acre of wheat withheld from production (estimated per acre market value...
...Bank loan, can luxuriously house hundreds in the presidential parties, including ambassadors attending the concurrent meeting of the Organization of American States. President Eisen hower very likely will stay at the spacious hilltop U.S. embassy residence near by, and other Presidents might also prefer their own embassies, technically native soil. But advisers, minor officials and many newsmen may wind up billeted at U.S. military posts in the Canal Zone...
...cased in a padding of sociological fat. Life, Aran Islander O'Flaherty seems to say, can only be understood in terms of death. Like many another Irishman, he sees the skull beneath the skin, just as his starveling heroes see the sharp rocks gnaw through the thin soil. ("I wish you a happy death," cries one after another of his characters, as if the wish were the greatest thing life had to offer.) To underline his point that man's nature is animal, O'Flaherty has written of hawks, cows, rockfish, conger eels and water hens; their...
...city's markets, shops and factories, Thailand's young Chinese are eager for learning and enlightenment. They band together in hundreds of small groups to discuss art, literature, music and the world of ideas. Many a shrewd Communist has been able to plant his ideas in fertile soil. With the battle all but lost in this vital salient, Thailand's Chinese anti-Communists last month sent a call for help to Formosa. Their answer came in the form of a fat, jovial, 43-year-old music teacher named Chu Yung-chen...