Word: banyan
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...boomtown fever was not confined to the Bund and midtown shopping area. At White Cloud airport a C.N.A.C. pilot exclaimed: "My God, there are five new buildings here since my trip last week!" From banyan-shaded Shameen Island (site of the original foreign concessions) the boom fever spread to equally fashionable Tung Shan, where Premier Sun Fo and other officials maintain swank Western-style homes. New arrivals vied eagerly for the few remaining houses and apartments. Key money for a dingy, two-room flat ran as high as $4,000 U.S. On the outskirts of the city hundreds of coolies...
BLOOD ON THE DINING-ROOM FLOOR (80 pp.)-Gertrude Stein-Banyan Press...
...counted out in the early betting. He ran on an all-G.I. ticket and corralled 125,606 votes, many of which might have gone to Jones. Fourth in the primary was tough-talking Congressman Jimmy Morrison, another old aerial root off Louisiana's once-flourishing political banyan tree...
...world has almost forgotten Maria Montessori, the founder of progressive education. But she was still alive last week, though far from her native Italy and her world-famed kindergartens. And she was still quite capable of laying down the law. In the shade of a giant banyan tree in the oceanside colony of Adyar, India, she had just laid it down to members of the Indian Theosophical Society. When someone asked her if she had become a theosophist, the self-confident old (77) Dottoressa snapped: "I am a Montessorian...
Crusading Plan. Such famine hazards were exactly what was on the mind of Sir John Boyd Orr, banyan-browed Scottish nutritionist and food crusader. To the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), of which he is director general, he was about to submit a plan which would free farming from gambling, he hoped. FAO, now only an advisory body, should enter the operating field, create a central financial system for buying any nation's surplus crops; it would eventually control production, fix prices, do away with the up-&-down cycles...