Word: burbanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Started by Short, the winning streak of flashing Crimson racquets gained fast as James J. Thackara '36 completely vanquished E. Davis, number three man for the Green, 15-10, 15-11, and 16-15. But the best earned victory belongs to Daniel E. Burbank '37. Coming from behind with two games against him, Burbank took the next three rounds to cop the match from S. A. Lyon...
...last week, a 31-year-old millionaire named Howard Hughes was eating a combination breakfast and luncheon in Los Angeles. To this oilman-cineman-aviator came a telephone report that weather was fine all the way across the continent. Cramming a last mouthful Howard Hughes dashed out to Burbank, where for three days a stock model Northrop "Gamma" with a special engine had been waiting with 700 gallons of gasoline aboard. Stopping neither to get food nor to tell anyone but his timer that he was out to add the transcontinental non stop record to the world landplane speed mark...
There was no such thing as a plant patent in the U. S. when Luther Burbank died in 1926. In 1930 President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent...
...last year. With a 1935 production of 750,000 units, the truck industry consists of some 50 companies, most of which are known only to the people who buy trucks. Many have a distinctly regional flavor. Brockway Motor is strong in the Northeast. Kleiber of San Francisco, Moreland of Burbank, Kenworth of Seattle, distribute on the Pacific Coast. Corbitt Co. is a North Carolina concern...
...addition to himself, five other regulars, P. Robie '38 and Richard G. Powell '38, fullbacks, Daniel E. Burbank, Jr.'37, halfback, and T. Newlin Hastings '38 and Thomas Motley, 2nd '38, forwards, will return to action next year...