Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wounded woman back to the Indian side of the border and then, with U.P. Correspondent John Hlavacek, went out for the two men who had rushed after the woman. Indian onlookers began shouting "Please withdraw, satyagrahis, please withdraw." The satyagrahis crawled backward inch by inch until they reached Indian soil...
...list more exports and more crop and cattle production, the Perón regime at least showed that it has learned one hard lesson: Argentina's most direct way out of economic stagnation is to become again a great exporter of the products of its wondrously fertile soil...
Each year the chapter buys from 250 to 400 steer calves, uses $40,000 worth of feed. Once, it bought 40 acres of sagebrush land, leveled it, tested its soil, built up its fertility, then gave it to the district as a $35,000 gift. The boys have proved such able businessmen, in fact, that the Wasco bank thinks little about making them loans. One boy-the son of a Swiss immigrant who works for $1.37 an hour-has borrowed and repaid...
Gangling John Henry is a goodhearted scientist who has discovered a mildly radioactive substance called Taurum while experimenting with gold at an atomic pile. Taurum turns into a crop multiplying wonder drug when applied to the soil. And John Henry, in search of more gold to convert, is soon in a head-whirling spin on the Washington merry-go-around. Author Alfred (Raising a Riot) Toombs's hot-weather farce hilariously ribs and roams the nation's capital, from cocktail binges to congressional investigations. The underlying moral, if there is one, is that the national sense of humor...
...said. At the end of their first week in Iowa, the Russians had said nothing about the real difference between farming in the U.S.S.R. and in the U.S.: freedom. But Iowans hoped they understood that the difference meant prosperity and a full realization of the bounty from fertile soil, well and happily tended...