Word: soils
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...metals), and buys more U.S. goods ($2.9 billion a year in vehicles, chemicals and textiles) than any other continent. Its peoples number 167 million, and they are multiplying 2½ times as fast as the rest of the world. But three-fifths of them are lowly tillers of the soil, and their per capita yearly income (about $275) is a meager one-sixth that of the U.S. citizen...
...trustees of Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas asked Blackburn to take over their campus as well as Flanner. Blackburn saw his problem as helping Negro farm hands driven from their jobs by modern machines. In addition to basic liberal arts, he set such students to studying animal husbandry, soil chemistry and farm machinery, gave them a third year of working at a job under college supervision. After that, armed with an associate of arts certificate, they are ready to strike out for themselves...
...triple problem of poverty, race and regionalism; in Chapel Hill, N.C. During his 34 years at the University of North Carolina, Georgia-born Sociologist Odum exhorted his fellow Southerners (in 200-odd books, articles and monographs) to abandon provincialism, utilize to the fullest their great resources of power, climate, soil and men. He preached his message in scholarly tomes (Southern Regions of the United States) and popular novels (Rainbow Round My Shoulder), lived to see a new generation of Southerners on the way to realizing his fondest dream: a rich and powerful South that would "stop being afraid of democracy...
...Negro went to the other hotel without a protest, but he had no illusions about why he had been sent away. "The desk clerk was discriminating against me because of my color," he said afterwards. "I walked away feeling that I would never want to put foot on Canadian soil again...
...warm temperature moves northward, its shift produces unpleasant as well as pleasant effects. Last week Dr. Rene Pomerleau, of the Canadian government's forest pathology laboratory, warned that birch forests are dying all over northern New England and eastern Canada. After a few seasons of unusually high soil temperatures, the trees die back at the tops. Already, said Pomerleau, much timber has been affected. If the dying trees are not harvested soon, fungi will destroy them...