Word: topsoil
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...whatever economic benefit they bring, or fail to bring to farmers, federal farm programs exact a toll in morale. TIME correspondents in all major agricultural regions found farmers who wanted to talk "off the record" about temptations to dishonesty under the program. One Indianan sold the topsoil off a field and put the barren ground into a soil bank; a group of Californians use soil-banked acres to start future fruit orchards. Says Lynn Larson, who holds a city job to fatten his lean income from a 2O9-acre farm near East Garland, Utah: "Under these federal programs, the farmers...
...river funnel, the courts collect all the energy of capricious Boston weather and translate it into wind. For the survival of tennis, some form of windbreak is obviously needed. The clearest solution--trees and bushes--would look most pleasant, but due to the cindery bog soil around the courts, topsoil would have to be brought in. This can be done, but requires work and money. It was tried, on a half-hearted scale, with the bushes around the varsity courts. They are dying as their roots are stretching out beyond their small ditchful of humus. A less natural but simpler...
Outdoor Theater. Financed by Britain's Ministry of Works, Hope-Taylor excavated the site with prodigious care. He skinned off the topsoil and found faint color changes that showed where timber had rotted. He also found a few foundation stones and many traces of holes where posts had been set in the earth. Working from these clues, Hope-Taylor concluded that the wedge-shaped area had been the site of a crude, roofless, theaterlike structure filled with wooden benches. Facing the benches was a dais protected from the weather by a screen of wickerwork daubed with clay. From this...
...while turkeys are marching noisily to their doom, leaves are smoking their way skywards, worms are retreating from the chill topsoil, squirrels are hiding from the cruel, cold world, and the woebegone birds are fleeing to Florida for the season...
...ladies' day; NBC's pickup of the small but illuminating drama of Adlai Stevenson's reception for Mrs. Roosevelt; Bess Truman, behind dark glasses, nudging Harry in the ribs for speaking out of turn; bottle-bald Sam Rayburn (who did not submit to a dulling topsoil application of orange powder this time, as he did the last) threatening to shoot an admonishing finger right through the little glass screens in U.S. living rooms; the grin spreading across H. V. Kaltenborn's face as he watched Harry Truman (on film) impersonate Kaltenborn's clipped commentary...