Word: subsoilers
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...flood times, if not artificially restricted, it spreads its waters over most of its alluvial valley. Levees make the floods higher by penning them in, and levees which are made of dirt cannot be built high enough to hold the whole flood in the river channel, for the subsoil would give way under the pressure, if not the levee itself. Hence when big floods occurred the Army planned to let the river use floodways over the lowlands, to let say 20% of the alluvial plain be submerged in order to protect the rich lands of the other...
...then, to an international chorus of "Shame! Shame!" was paid off and repudiated by the U. S. concern (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.). Dressy Mr. Rickett's importance survived last autumn's misadventure because his safe continued to be the repository for the concession for the subsoil rights to precisely the two-thirds of Ethiopia that Benito Mussolini wants. The contract gives Rickett five years in which to implement the deal with capital...
...operation was what no Great Power would give Ethiopia last week except in words (see p. 18). The blatant announcement last fortnight that Haile Selassie had conceded subsoil rights in half his empire to British Promoter Francis Rickett and his mysterious backers (TIME, Sept. 9) was universally called by statesmen and financiers last week a "nigger trick." Anything but smart was this dusky African potentate's pathetic belief that President Roosevelt would defend Ethiopia against Italy as a result of the midnight signing of the Rickett concession. Equally footless was his loss of temper in accusing Secretary Hull of "gross...
Half a Kingdom. Fat Chaps held out to the acquisitive, Semitic Emperor a promise of at least $15,000,000 per year-triple Ethiopia's present revenue-if Power of Trinity would sign away for 75 years virtually all subsoil rights-precious metals and chemical substances as well as oil-in something more than half the Ethiopian Empire...
Erosion. Granary of the U. S. is the Mississippi Basin. Wind and water have stripped one-fourth of its tilled lands to the subsoil, hopelessly gullied much more. "The very land is dying," said the President's Committee. "Measured by man's brief generations it is losing forever its ability to produce food." In this national emergency the national Government must lead. Conservatively estimated, erosion costs the U. S. $400,000,000 per year. In a 20-year program of co-operation with States, counties and individual farmers, the Government could check erosion at a cost...