Word: topsoil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...none had received a dangerous dose. What is more, added the board, "there is not the slightest risk in eating meat, fish, vegetables from the zone, or of drinking milk from there." Just to be on the safe side, the U.S. dug up 1,500 cubic yards of contaminated topsoil and tomato plants and made plans to ship them back to a radioactive-waste dump in Aiken, S.C., for diplomatic burial...
...years of independence, this neighboring Central American republic (pop. 2,000,000) can at least thank Strongman General Osvaldo López, 44, for two years of political stability-and economic growth. With $25 million a year in Alianza aid, generous foreign investment, and their own nine-foot-deep topsoil, Hondurans have built a G.N.P. that this year is expected to add up to $460 million, 8% over last year. Bananas still provide $38 million (or 40%) of the country's export earnings, but the highly successful Central American Common Market has stimulated a mushrooming cluster of small industries...
...Tennessee was once a treacherous river, red with the topsoil it carried away by summer, aswirl with the houses, horses and barns its floods destroyed by winter. Today, more than two-thirds of its 900-mile length is virtually one tamed and tranquil lake. Hundreds of recreation sites occupy the valley's 10,000 miles of shoreline. Its waters provide one of the world's finest inland recreation areas, yield fishermen some 10,000,000 Ibs. a year of 23 species of fish...
...estimated 40 crops will have to be raised and discarded before the radiation in the soil can be brought within "acceptable limits." But before the 41st harvest, most people will die of starvation or radiation poisoning. The alternative, according to the federal government, is to scrape off the topsoil, with large earth moving equipment--such as motorizer scrapers and motor graders." Naturally this presupposes a plentiful supply of motor vehicles, gasoline, trained vehicle operators, food to sustain the workers, farmers to plan the new crops, crops to plant, and sufficient farming equipment. Willard F. Libby presupposes another set of circumstances...
...Could Always Tell A Yale Man, once upon a time. You might not Approve, to be sure, but you certainly could always Tell. Frisky. Groomed. Bumptious. Friendly. Sleek. The flinty granite of the East, the knotted pine of the far-flung Reaches, and the lumpish topsoil of the Midwest all gentled and traveled by four years of mellow College life. Yes, that was the Yalie all right. As far from a top hat as a Hottentot, but withal, a man to remember, to conjure up, to savor-to be reckoned with...