Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign soil, the Crimson revived the ghost of early season promise, scoring three times in the first period, four in the second, one in the third, and five in the fourth. "A well deserved win," said Coach Bruce Munro...
...land where the U.S. grows its food and fiber, the majestic checkerboard of spring was beginning to form. The plains and rolling hills of Illinois and Iowa, where farmers were turning the soil for this year's crop of corn, were a geometric pattern of black and brown and green. On to the West and South, through Kansas and into Texas, the spreading, endless fields of wheat were coming green and beginning to ripple softly in the wind. In the Deep South, across the bottom of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, green shoots were peeking out of the ridges...
...gone through what the farmers are going through today." Asked to define her role in shaping the destiny of the American farmer, she answered without hesitation: "To be a true and loyal companion to my husband, be interested in his work, do away with surpluses and get the soil bank passed...
...also zigged on the soil bank. Last fall he was opposed to it and called it a "land rental scheme"; this year, faced with declining prices and even bigger surpluses, he changed his mind, agreed that it should be the heart of the Administration's 1956 farm program. Despite his opposition to high, rigid price supports, he has been willing to promise a firm 82.5% of parity on most basic crops in an effort to prevent Congress from passing a rigid 90% bill. Having learned the politic art of zigzag, he can be philosophical about it. At staff meetings...
...philosophical. Republican leaders meeting in Washington (see below) began to perk up after initial despondency. The President, they figured, had pulled the rug from under the Democrats by his principle-over-politics decision, as well as by his offer of administrative relief to farmers and his request for immediate soil-bank payments. By midweek, House Republicans who had backslid on the farm-bill vote (TIME, April 23) began to rally...