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Nourished by a generous soil and a benign climate, this open-toed, pastel empire last week beat with a great hum-thrumming vitality. On Wilshire Boulevard, rivet guns prattled into the fresh steel of new office buildings. The reiterated whop of the hammered nail rang out in a 6,000-house development on San Fernando farmland, in a 17,000-house subdivision in the tawny hills 40 miles to the southwest in Palos Verdes-and wherever bulldozers sliced down citrus groves to make room for more. From the swarms of workers in electronics and aircraft plants came one big, tumultuous...
...Senate also undid another of the House's heat-of-battle deeds-the vote last May to kill off the Soil Bank's acreage reserve at the end of 1957. A Senate-House conference settled last week on an agriculture appropriations bill that included $500 million to carry the acreage reserve through...
...drought and the cost-price squeeze, have become too enmeshed in the U.S. subsidy program ever to vote their own way into the uncertainties of a free market. The 1958 quotas will do little to solve wheatmen's problems. Despite the acreage limitation program and the soil-banking of more than 12 million acres (in reality often poor land) at a cost of $231 million, the 1957 crop promises to be only a fraction smaller than last year, further adding to the nation's ominous 1.3 billion-bu. surplus...
After many cycles of this, they opened the jars. The dry soil inside was still alive with bacteria which had triumphantly survived "Martian" dryness and cold. The hardiest strains could reproduce during warm spells when the moisture content of their soil was only two-fifths of 1%. When the moisture rose above 1%, as it may during the Martian spring when the icecap melts or evaporates, the bacteria throve...
Mars Chamber. Last week Dr. Strughold reported at Flagstaff that this experiment has been performed successfully by Dr. Roland B. Mitchell and Lieut. John A. Kooistra Jr. of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. They collected soil samples from the high slopes of Mt. McKinley, the Painted Desert and the Grand Canyon, where the climate in some respects is almost as tough as on Mars. They put the samples in jars and replaced the oxygen-rich earthly air with dry nitrogen. They lowered the moisture content to below 1% and reduced the pressure to 1.2 Ibs. per square inch...