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Selove also stated that there was a tremendous variation in the amount of strontium 90 found in the soil. He said that the concentration depended on the amount of calcium in a certain area--there have been variations from the mean of as much as 5000 percent because of calcium concentration--and also that the amount of strontium taken into an individual's body depends on the form in which it is ingested...
...first steps was to get copies of a photographic air survey that Britain's Royal Air Force made of southern Etruria during World War II. Studied carefully, the photos often show hundreds of shadowy circles. These are Etruscan tombs, which affect slightly the fertility of the soil and therefore the darkness of the chlorophyll in green plants growing on the surface. When air photos are taken after a light snowfall, the tombs often show up as snowy patches surrounded by dark ground where the snow has melted...
Look, Then Dig. Next step was to drive metal stakes in the ground about 15 ft. apart, send a weak electric current between them, and measure in this way the electrical resistance of the soil. Since the air space of a tomb raises the resistance and the filled-in earth at its entrance lowers the resistance, a few readings often tell the diggers exactly where...
...amount of immunity can save him from falling for Fawny May, a cotton farmer's daughter. Trouble is that Fawny is a born homemaker. Looking at the rich soil around the deserted house she wants them to buy, she exclaims: "Plant you a teacup handle here, next dinnertime you'd cut a set of china." Uncle Chunk has long since warned Polk: "A rolling stone don't gather no mortgages." So off they roll, to the Southwest, to California, wherever a crop is making. Author Williams' world is an inevitable reminder of John Steinbeck...
...ambitious young idealist comes to Washington with An Idea. A humanitarian botanist, he has developed a new kind of soil in which vegetables grow to enormous size. He merely needs a rather amusing ingredient. "I turn gold into dirt," he explains. And, not only as the central issue for a comedy, this is quite a pleasant idea...