Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great areas of the desert have turned green with new water wells and hundreds of miles of new irrigation canals. The fertile soil and year-round growing season give desert agriculture an intensity and diversity undreamed of by the Midwest dirt farmer. In California's rich, 650,000-acre Imperial Valley, grains, cotton, lettuce, sheep, flax, cattle and carrots can be raised side by side. Farmers change their crops to meet changing market conditions, and, when water is needed, a telephone order brings it sluicing through laterals from the All-American Canal, which stretches 80 miles to the Colorado...
...companies (among them: U.S. Steel, Caterpillar Tractor, General Electric). Weighing ten tons, the Wonsover spans 240 sq. ft. of earth while a battery of hammers pulverizes the ground at the rate of 50,000 strokes a minute; other attachments mix fertilizer and lime, plant seed, cover and fumigate the soil against insects, all in a single operation. Even in brush-covered territory, says Cohen, the Wonsover can plant 70 acres in 24 hours v. 460 hours for conventional tractors, plows and seeders...
Citation: "Your music springs naturally from our soil, and you have given wings of melody to the legends of our people...
...trip to Korea but this month Rowley is thinking ahead to the Big Four conference. Plans already call for an Air Force fighter and air-sea rescue escort for the Columbine, and Rowley will never be far from the President until he returns to U.S. soil...
...Austin B. Mason book awards ($20 each) went to Walter R. Ferris 1G and James Parcher '55, who both did "outstanding work in the field of soil mechanics...