Word: soils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squeeze higher yields out of corn already planted. But most farm experts remain discouraged. "So much damage has already been done," says Billy Ray Gowdy, commissioner of agriculture in Oklahoma, where farmers are worried that there will not be enough rain for a good sorghum harvest and that the soil will be far too dry to plant a new crop of winter wheat...
...grain belt, gouging great creases in the fields and delaying planting of new crops. Then the rain stopped, and for well over a month now, the sun has risen like a bright brass gong in a white sky. While days, then weeks passed without rain, the sun parched the soil and left corn stalks brittle, stunted and dead. From the Dakotas southward to Texas, from Kansas east to parts of Ohio, the most baleful weather in a generation is raising the specter of economic disaster for Midwest farmers and the businessmen who depend on them. The big drought is daily...
...clan headed by Don Quixote, chasers of chimera on the horizon which turn out to be windmills turning vapidly in the air. But Spain, that nurturer of fantasies and distiller of dreams, has witnessed the loss of more serious things than one's pants. In this century its seared soil has sucked up the blood of endless thousands of men and women who had a vision and were willing to risk their lives to see it realized...
...committee advocates the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cypriot soil and the reinstatement of Archbishop Makarios as president of Cyprus, Kafatos said...
...bold, encouraging vision of both man and nature. His main theme is symbiosis, the intimate association between even the most dissimilar organisms. For example, he points out that bacteria called rhizobia live in the roots of bean plants and enable them to utilize the nitrogen in the soil; without these parasites the plants would die. There are also viruses-small, independent packets of nucleic acids -which Thomas believes may have helped man evolve by transmitting bits of the master molecule DNA from one organism to another. Even the single cells that have combined to form a human being house microscopic...