Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commandment 8-a. In Levittown, Pa., thefts of top soil from the grounds of the Hope Lutheran Church stopped after the Rev. Charles L. Ertman posted a sign reading: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL CHURCH TOP SOIL...
...Nightingale does not use normal irrigation methods. He flushes dried salt out of the soil, and he plants his crops on the sides of furrows so that their roots will avoid concentrations of salt. He expects that his salt irrigation system will add considerably to the food production of Hawaii's islands...
...Soil in the Trouser Cuffs. Whenever a body is found after sudden, violent or unexplained death, one of the 24 medical examiners must be on the spot before it is moved. With routine examination of all bodies destined for cremation (to prevent destruction of evidence), this means that 20,000 of the city's annual 100,000 deaths are checked. About 350 involve homicide. Every day, from ten to 20 painstaking autopsies are performed; each body is carefully examined not only for poisons but for hidden signs of wounds, or for internal evidence of strangulation (which may have been...
...fangled detective gadgets with which Dr. Gonzales himself pioneered was the spectrograph. In 1942 the husband of a woman found strangled in Central Park had seven witnesses to swear that he had been at a dance at the time of her death. But spectrograph analysis of soil in his trouser cuffs broke his alibi and clinched the case that sent him to the electric chair...
...market by the Bardmatic Corporation of Muskegon, Mich. Refuse is dumped into an underground container and sprinkled with a charge of chemicals before the unit's conical steel top is clamped into place. Liquefied by reaction with the chemicals, the garbage seeps off into the soil. Since the reaction is continuous, the first charge of chemicals lasts indefinitely. Price...