Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first crop, probably grain. For years to come, he hopes for very little-no telephone, no paved road, no nearby school, nothing much but a chance to make a living on his own land. "We'll plant trees," he told Elizabeth as they stared across the bare, baking soil they had won. "If you like, we'll plant some roses...
mission saw was a land of "poverty and hunger," of "barely . . . food enough to keep life in the people," where "vast areas . . . are desert." Though 80% of its 44 million depend for a living on the soil, less than a twentieth of the land is cultivated, and only a tenth of its potential realized. It is backward and unstable, a menace to itself and the world's peace...
...back what she considers her rightful inheritance, the Iron Curtain clanged down. One day last week a little black truck sped up to the gallery door, loaded all the disputed Picassos aboard and whisked them off to the Soviet embassy. There, the paintings were back on Soviet soil, where Heiress Stchoukine has no more chance of collecting than a Czarist bond holder...
Said Rancher Bowring: "In the long run, rigid price supports take from the farmer more than he receives. They encourage him to deplete his soil. They saddle the markets with surpluses which give him no opportunity to realize full parity. They destroy the normal relationship of feed and livestock prices. They encourage the development of competitive synthetics . . . They place farmers in such a position that they lose much of their freedom to make management decisions...
...with 75,000 men, had begun an invasion of the North after victory at Chancellorsville in May, confident that a decisive victory on Federal soil would cause the disheartened North to sue for peace. Major General George G. Meade, with 88,000 Federals, followed him. The battlefield was chosen inadvertently when a Southern unit, foraging for shoes, ran into Union cavalry scouts at the little eastern Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. Fighting commenced the next day, July 1, north of the town. That night the Federal troops, driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line...