Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congressmen and other critics have proposed a variety of retaliatory schemes. Among them: shaming De Gaulle by bringing home from French soil the remains of 60,501 U.S. soldiers who died defending France in two wars, demanding that France repay more than $4 billion in World War I debts (which France and other European debtors except Finland ceased paying in 1932), swamping France's lucrative grain-export markets with American wheat, or putting a tax on American tourists to France. These are the kind of ideas that sound attractive-until one remembers that France, too, has great retaliatory powers...
Limping slightly from fatigue, his face ashen and heavily bearded, King Constantine of Greece, 27, walked down a ramp onto Italian soil. Behind him, glum and red-eyed, came his Danish wife, Queen Anne-Marie, 25, her mink coat still smelling of the mothballs from which she had hastily removed it. With them were their two infant children, Queen Mother Frederika, the King's 25-year-old sister Irene, and several loyal followers...
...other countries. They have bought up land for as little as 70 an acre from private owners, sometimes reselling it for as much as $2 an acre. Around the Hotel Nacional bar in Brasilia, some speculators regale foreigners with Bunyanesque tales of undiscovered mineral riches in the soil...
...acreage, has found that it is 24 hours by Jeep from the nearest city, or that he must put in roads, irrigation and other costly improvements before it has any lasting value. While a few U.S. farmers say that they can grow everything from rice to cotton in the soil of Goias and Bahia, others have found their land nearly infertile. Since homesteads are not staked out and land records in Brazil are chaotic, ownership, moreover, is often uncertain and difficult to prove. Potential prospectors for mineral wealth have been dismayed by the discovery that anything they dig belongs...
Together with eleven Cambridge churches the Corporation has been working on plans for a moderate income housing development. The Corporation picked up the tab for initial soil tests, architects' plans, and an application for federal subsidies...