Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compound that will solidify spongy soil, ease construction of forward roads and airstrips...
...almost all the Conservation Fellows have come from various federal agencies within the Agriculture and Interior Departments, groups such as the Forest Service, the Soil Conservation Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Geological Survey, and the Production and Marketing Association. Others have come from the Tennessee Valley Authority and state conservation departments; eventually the fellowships, which carry a maximum of $3,000 may be extended even to employees of private companies which have a significant interest in the development of the so-called "renewable natural resources...
...expert witness on power-plant sites. SEC called up University of Mississippi Engineering Dean Frederic H. Kellogg, a onetime Panama Canal geologist. Testified Kellogg: "A safe plant could be built at [West Memphis] but . . . foundation soil and river conditions . . . would make the overall substructure costs significantly higher than at other nearby locations." At a press conference, AEChair-man Lewis Strauss defended the site, saying that the Army Corps of Engineers had approved the West Memphis site as "a safe place" after surveying 16 proposed locations. But, as it turned out, the Army Engineers had nothing to do with the plant...
...rains make stone walls sweat with cold damp, and whose glinting sunlight fleetingly transforms forbidding rocks into some of the world's loveliest scenery. There are the English, who keep trying to treat Scotland as a conquered province instead of a proud nation. There is the grudging Scottish soil, whose bleak austerity breeds, by sheer force of survival, hardy sheep bearing wool that makes the world's finest tweeds. There is the Scottish economy, founded on ships and coal and heavy machinery, which, when depression hit, crashed with the thundering completeness of a toppling crane...
...Centre d'Art, which supplies untrained local artists with painting material and a tourist market (TIME, June 7). The two most impressive painters in the exhibition have in fact achieved a high degree of skill and sophistication while keeping their roots deep in Haiti's voodoo-impregnated soil...