Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brezhnev explained to a party meeting in Moscow last week, the Soviet Union will spend roughly $45 billion during the next five years to 1) mechanize the farms, 2) increase chemical-fertilizer output, 3) irrigate 6,500,000 acres of arid soil, and 4) rehabilitate and drain an estimated 11 million acres of potentially tillable land. Unlike Khrushchev, who concentrated on opening up Asian virgin lands, Brezhnev and Kosygin plan to put the main emphasis on improving already cultivated areas west of the Urals. Brezhnev also put his prestige behind the most unusual departure in Soviet agriculture since the 1930s...
...learn more about the lunar surface, JPL scientists decided to fire the small attitude-control thrusters located near the bottom of each of Surveyor's three legs, less than a foot above the surface. Seven different times, the thrusters fired jets of nitrogen into the lunar soil while Surveyor's camera shot pictures of the area near its feet. The pictures showed no clouds of dust-another indication that the lunar surface is firmly packed. By week's end, as the sun rose toward its apex in the lunar sky, shortening shadows and making it more difficult...
Everywhere, U.S. bulldozers are turning up the rich Thai soil to build roads, fuel pipelines, stockpile depots, communication nets. This mushrooming complex of support facilities is designed to support...
...charged that Soviet troops were no longer needed in Eastern Europe, since the threat of U.S. aggression had faded. It proposed that any nation desiring Russian troops on its soil should conclude bilateral treaties with Moscow to keep them. The message also suggested that Moscow should gain the unanimous approval of all Warsaw Pact nations before it ever uses its tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. And, asked the Rumanians, why should not the command of the Warsaw Pact military alliance be rotated among member nationalities, rather than remaining solely in Russian hands...
...many others before him, Maurois reckons up the bill that Balzac's output-97 novels and novellas, scores of stories, articles and plays, 6,000,000 words-owes to the author's experiences. The son of a petit bourgeois whose roots ran deep in France's soil, Balzac never really escaped his origins. Of life he demanded money, love and magic -the themes of all his books-and spent them faster than they came in. He dreamed of the $100,000 pineapple crop he would harvest from the slope of his modest villa in Ville...