Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model off the assembly line of the Cockshutt factory at Bellevue, Ohio. Equipped with a pushbutton radio for standard and short-wave broadcasts, a cigarette lighter on the dash, hydraulic controls, the tractor would retail for $4,000. Commenting that "two-thirds to three-quarters of my top soil now is in the Atlantic Ocean, or somewhere between here and there," Farmer Ike asked if the moldboard plow would cut 14 inches deep, was assured that it would go down 16 inches. He was anxious to ask his doctors how soon he could test his gift. "I always had ideas...
...political mist enshrouding U.S. farm policy, doughty Ezra Benson emerged last week with a plan for shrinking overproduction. His plan would keep flexible price supports but would go beyond them by paying farmers to switch from surplus-making crops to soil-building grass and trees. Apart from its agricultural soundness, which came first with stubborn Ezra Benson, the "soil-bank" proposal looked like a political convincer. It was not a new plan; the New Deal put a similar scheme into effect from 1936 to " 1943. But coming from Benson, it was evidence that the Secretary's inflexible opposition to inflexible...
...farm program which will restore 90% of parity subsidies, extend the benefits to additional products, and possibly include a soil rental program...
...Army engineers. By 500 B.C., says Ford in Natural History, thousands of Indians or pre-Indians were living at Poverty Point in a carefully laid-out city. They honored their gods by building enormous temple mounds vaguely in the shape of a bird. Six concentric octagons of different-colored soil showed up on the air photos; on closer examination, they turned out to be low ridges, laid out like city streets around a central plaza. The ridges look like defensive works, but Ford thinks they were built for people to live on. Their total length is 11.2 miles, and when...
...Germans as far as I know have no capacity for being bored. Else I think the race would have become extinct long ago through self-torture." ¶"The material world is a fiction; but every other world is a nightmare." ¶ "I think that art, etc., has a better soil in the ferocious 100% America than in the Intelligentsia of New York. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres, etc., that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands." ¶"I have just finished Faulkner's Sanctuary, and I think I have understood...