Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief Justice Earl Warren admitted that the laws grew out of religious soil, but added that they are now intended to promote national comfort more than a national church. Said he: "People of all religions and people with no religion regard Sunday as a time for family activity, for late sleeping, for passive and active entertainments, for dining out and the like...
Drilling for Brine. Irrigation carries its own problems: nonsalty river water leaches out salts as it seeps through the soil, and much of it returns to streams, threatening their potability. In parts of Oklahoma and Texas, well drillers often get only a disappointing brine. Galveston's city supply is so loaded-351 p.p.m.-that newcomers say, "It's like drinking out of the bay." Private wells are the most variable. Federal geologists have found some in Kentucky with 31,100 p.p.m. and in Michigan with 66,700. Ocean water contains only 10,700 p.p.m...
Arizona is lining canals with test chemicals to arrest seepage. Virtually every state has promoted storage and irrigation projects, and the terracing of farm lands to get more water into the soil...
...Will they work? Five companies this year are marketing such products, most of them priced between $9 and $10 for a package covering about 2,500 sq. ft.: Scott's Halts, Dow's Crab Grass Killer, Vaughan's Pre-Kill, Pax's Crabgrass and Soil Pest Control, Swift's Rid; others, presumably with names like Stomp, Unconditional Surrender...
From such casual miffs can flow great neighborhood rifts. In Berkeley, Calif., John Klein, a labor unionist, got fed up with the host of ills that infested his soil, planted his whole lawn this year with hardy ivy. Last week his status-conscious neighbors decided that this was going too far, and slapped him with a lawsuit for violating a neighborhood compact whose fine print requires that lawns and gardens be kept "in a good and husbandlike manner." None of this would have happened if only somebody in The Bronx had been more alert in the first place...