Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cotton fields, turned to pasture, will yield 149 Ib. of beef per acre. But if nearby streams are dammed with earth and the fields shallowly flooded, they will yield as much as 600 Ib. of catfish, bass or bream, at a much lower cost per acre. So announced the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station last week. Like fields, the ponds must be strewn with commercial fertilizer (100 Ib. per acre), so that aquatic plants will flourish...
Last July and August, during polio outbreaks in rural Connecticut and Alabama, and in Cleveland and Atlanta, the doctors trapped thousands of flies in those parts. They mashed up the flies in sterile water or ether, gave it to monkeys in feedings, injections or nosedrops. Down came the monkeys with polio...
Carl Carmer's four volumes of non-fiction (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum, etc.) have made him one of the most popular of U.S. regional specialists. This, his first novel, is just as regional, just as competent, and will probably be even more popular than his nonfiction. Scene: Carmer's favorite Genesee country of upper New York State, where he spent his boyhood. Time: the 1790s...
...years ago No. 1 weathermaker Carrier Corp. sold Alabama's Woodward Iron its first blast-furnace installation. Result, says Woodward, was up to a 20% increase in pig-iron output, a 13% saving in coke per ton of iron. A new Jones & Laughlin installation in Pennsylvania hiked output 16-18% with a 4% coke saving...
William Batt's own SKF Industries controls the weather in its ball-bearing plants; Chevrolet has units in its machine-gun plant; Alabama's Rust Engineering has a 1,200-ton machine in its shell-loading plant...