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...Master of Soil. The good farmer knows what to do. He adds lime and fertilizer and grows grass or clover or alfalfa. Gradually the thin, sour forest soil turns into something like chernozem. The well-kept farms of New York State, Pennsylvania and Ohio are now far more fertile than they were when the pioneers (who so vex Vogt) first felled the forest...
...Race. Most listeners had lately found a new maturity and depth-if not yet real warmth-in the playing of Vladimir Horowitz, the sallow, thin-faced Russian who first astounded the U.S. 20 years ago with his mastery of piano technique...
...lower air levels are already pretty well watched by civilian weathermen. What interests the Air Force is the area far above-the clear, thin, cold upper atmosphere, where winds of enormous velocity blow around the world. The big job of meteorologists at present is to study these winds and learn how they stir up the atmosphere down below. The Air Force is charting atmospheric conditions up to 20,000 feet for the whole northern hemisphere. Soon it plans to extend the survey up to 40,000 feet...
...during that half hour of charm at the Arena and it sounded like Arthur Godfrey praising Graham crackers. A traitor's treatment, Dewey cooed, is what any Communist will get if he's caught betraying the Americans government. Here he stepped back from the microphones and smiled delightedly. A thin ripple of applause swept the crowd...
...according to the "half-life" of the radioactive material. But such a "storage battery" might have one big advantage. It would not give off, necessarily, the dangerous neutrons and penetrating gamma rays which leak from atomic piles. Some active isotopes emit only radiations that can be stopped by comparatively thin shielding. There might be no deadly byproducts, either, to endanger the neighborhood...