Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shot-in-the-Root. Des Moines' Ross Daniels Root Feeder Co. has needled its business with a hypodermic needle for plants. Attached to a garden hose, the needle is inserted into the ground near the plant roots. The water dissolves powdered fertilizers in the neck of the needle and feeds them directly to the roots. The price...
...other planemakers were not so happy. Robert Gross, president of the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., announced that his company would show an operating loss this year. Reason: suppliers' strikes, troubles with Constellation production. Because of this and a "diminishing market outlook," Lockheed was abandoning its Saturn feeder plane, on which it had spent some $6 million. Despite a backlog of $156 million, Lockheed expected to cut back...
...estimated that he could clean out the lines in two weeks, have oil pouring out the Eastern outlets in another two weeks. Their emergency use for gas was out of the question. Reasons: compressor pumps would have to be installed all along some 1,500 miles of pipe, and feeder lines built-a year's job. But, thanks to WAA's latest bungle, there seemed small chance that the pipelines would be used for months, for anything...
...Sounders learned that hard-muscled, hard-talking Nick Bez was quite a fisherman himself. He owned or controlled 1) three of the biggest salmon canneries in Alaska, 2) a string of fishing vessels, 3) two gold mines, 4) an airline-West Coast Airlines, which next month will start a feeder service fanning from Portland into southwest Washington and western Oregon. Since then Nick Bez has also acquired, with financing from...
...reason for the shortage, said the President, was the extraordinary slaughtering in OPA-less July and August to take advantage of zooming prices. "Many of these cattle would normally have been fed to heavier weights," continued ex-cattle feeder Truman, "and come to market during September and October instead of August. Whether price control had been restored or not the glut of meat in summer was bound to mean a shortage in the fall...