Word: earless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native to China. the English walnut to Persia, celery to the Mediterranean. Sometime around the 5th Century, primitive South American corn, which had small, globular ears and irregular kernels, was crossed with the strong, tall gamma grass which grows in Central America. Result of this crossbreeding was teosinte, an earless corn-producing plant which still grows wild in Mexico and the highlands of Guatemala. Crossed and recrossed with South American corn, teosinte produced the elongated ear and regular rows characteristic of modern corn...
...automen expect 4,500,000 cars to be built in the first full year of postwar production, possibly 6,000,000 a year thereafter (previous top: 4,794,000 in 1929). Reason: the 5,000 U.S. cars arriving daily at "graveyards" will leave 6,500,000 onetime car owners earless a year hence, 8,000,000 others driving "junkers" (cars over 7½ years...
...Detroit dream of a roaring postwar market got confirmation in a Chevrolet survey last week. It revealed that by the midpart of next year: 1) 6,500,000 prewar car owners will be earless due to sales & junkings; 2) 9,500,000 will be limping along in antiquated autos worth less than $100 each...
Impressed with bicycling's possibilities in a new-earless U.S., OPM promised the industry a limited allocation of steel and rubber. The manufacturers in turn agreed that they could produce 1,000,000 bicycles in 1942 (1941 output: 1,800,000) and save 30,000 tons of steel. Method: make two models (male & female) instead of 35; limit them to 34 lb. (present average: 49 lb.); throw out spotlights, battery tanks, other gadgets...
...jungle, he discovered five more heads, several bigger than the Veracruz find. Last week the National Geographic Society released a picture of one of them, estimated to weigh 20 tons or more. It is 8 ft. i in. high, 20 ft. 10 in. around. Flat-faced, blunt-featured, almost earless, capped by a queer headpiece, it looks something like a subthyroid football player...