Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's illness and convalescence brought no visible damage in the domestic sphere. The Administration's goals and standards were set and clear. When circumstances called for the generation of new policy (e.g., the soil bank program), Eisenhower aides went ahead with the necessary plans...
...Soil-Bank Plan. The heart of the President's program, Benson testified, is the "soil-bank" plan, designed to cut plantings of wheat and cotton by perhaps 20%. The bank would consist of an "acreage reserve" and a "conservation reserve," which would cost the taxpayers $1 billion over the next three years. Farmers choosing to join the acreage reserve would take specific acres temporarily out of production, receiving compensation based on a percentage of the normal yield. Compensation would be paid, Benson testified, in a novel way: the farmers would get certificates redeemable by the Commodity Credit Corp...
This game will be the first played by a Crimson team on California soil since the varsity football team opened its '49 season with a 44-0 loss to Stanford. Since then, the Yacht Club has twice sailed to second place in the Intercollegiate Dinghy Championships hold in Newport Harbor, Calif...
When U.S. children attend grammar school, they learn from their history textbooks that Americans have squandered their natural resources by slaughtering buffalo, raping forests, polluting streams, and plowing up soil-holding grasslands. As the youngsters grow old enough to read Government news releases in the papers, they are reassured that under scientific Government management, our countrymen are developing the skill of harvesting, rather than mining, American wildlife, timber, and land. Whatever its shortcomings in practice, most citizens come to believe that through planned conservation we may have our resources and reap them...
Less than likely to cross the path of the average student are Arthur G. Aldersey Williams (Visiting Lecturer on Illumination), Harl Aldrich (Soil Mechanics), Douglas Atwood (Prosthetic Dentistry), and John H. Harrison (Clinical Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery...