Word: dandelion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sagyz, a Russian cousin of the American dandelion, was recommended by Dr. Paul J. Kolachov, Louisville scientist, to the National Farm Chemurgic Council as better than guayule. On 7,000,000 U.S. acres, 600,000 tons of rubber could be produced. Russia has been asked to send seeds. But ten years may be needed for such large-scale development...
...Concord Avenue study, he sat decked out in a blue velvet vest and jacket, a wilted dandelion in his button-hole. He had just returned fro, his daily walk "around and around the Common." Today he expects to spend quietly at his home and looked forward to giving another of his famed readings in the Union this spring...
...people too lazy to grow celtuce, botanists had a word of advice: eat weeds, some of which also run the vitamin gamut. Some of the more nutritious: dandelion, stinging nettle, dock, milkweed, marsh marigold, wild mustard, sorrel, purslane...
...Hitler wants rubber badly, and textile fibers. He would get most of Russia's rubber output but Russia produces only about 70% of her own rubber requirements (synthetically, and from the dandelion-like kok-sagyz plant). He would get only about a quarter of Russia's cotton, and very little wool unless he lets most of his Russian slaves freeze...
...Goof, a cowlicky, touching little dandelion seed of a man whom Saroyan characterized as "the naive white hope of the human race," wanted to change the world. He was thwarted wherever he went by an Easter-Parade cutaway-dummy representing conformity, and a deadpan gal named Destiny. He tried to change the world with love (represented by Minsky models in black lace panties), poetry, music, facts and statistics, common labor. He pleaded with all sorts-a dope-fiend radical, a religious drunkard, a doting old man with a beard and a penchant for poetry, followed by a girl representing...