Word: topsoil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walnut cleaned of its meat, it lies there a shell-no timber, no coal, no petroleum, no farm land really farmable." Twenty-five years ago, people first moved in numbers to Breathitt, to cut trees for railroad ties. The hills were stripped, the timber business expired, floods washed the topsoil off the farms."Now one farmer after another has given it- up as a bad job, has even deserted land he owns...