Word: soils
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Hugging the Mexican border 225 miles southeast of Los Angeles lies California's Imperial Valley, a sprawling 600,000-acre oasis of mineral-rich soil and year-round sun, surrounded by the trackless wastes of the Colorado Desert. Irrigated by aqueducts from the Colorado River, this below-sea-level island in the desert yields $150 million-a-year worth of diversified agricultural products ranging from Syrian plumcots to Pakistani grapes, has nurtured a breed of rugged, Stetson-crowned farm millionaires. Last week, in a melee of millionaires, deputy sheriffs, pickets and Mexican braceros, labor violence reminiscent of the brawling...
ILLEGAL STOCK TRADING was charged against Universal Controls President Morris Mac Schwebel. Federal grand jury indicted Schwebel on charge of conspiring to illegally sell-by phony earnings claims-unregistered Soil Builders International stocks and unregistered stock in Basic Atomics...
...abroad as President would be the most practical way for him to greet all allied leaders at once and in an offhand way-without the panoply and expectations of a formal "Western summit." Before he goes he will have made his first major foray into personal diplomacy on U.S. soil, welcoming British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan on a "working" visit to Washington, beginning April...
...Michigan epidemiologist, more than two years to figure out the reason. Most of the children, he found, got infected soon after they began to attend classes in the junior high school building, where the school bus parking lot and the playground were shaded by the trees. In the bare soil beneath the trees. Dr. Dodge found His to plasma fungi galore. Kids scuffing through the lot kicked up dust containing the fungus' spores, which, when inhaled, caused the infections. The dust and spores were also sucked in by the air intake of the school's ventilating system...
...Japanese and Hong Kong cotton shirts have risen in eight years from 200 dozen to 1,900,000 dozen, U.S. shirtmakers are far from losing their shirts, last year produced some 26 million dozen. The competition has benefited the consumer: cottonmakers are stepping up research on wrinkle-resistant and soil-resistant finishes, providing U.S. buyers with better shirts than ever before...