Word: goldenrod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs him go for Blue-eyed grass. Bouncing Bet, Horse Mint, Daisy Fleabane, Devil's Bit, Lousewort and Viper's Bugloss. Violets, daisies and goldenrod are all right...
...just discovered that rubber and isoprene were polymers. Then a Frenchman and an American made the plant almost indispensable and the War set half a dozen, nations to work trying to find a way to produce rubber within their boundaries. Thomas Edison boiled up native U. S. weeds, found goldenrod promising. And last week was written a new chapter in rubber's polysyllabic history...
...summer Thomas Alva Edison had been ailing at his Llewellyn Park home and laboratory near West Orange, N. J. Fortnight ago the heat wave forced him to abandon his rubber-from-goldenrod experiments (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929) and devote his energies to keeping cool. One hot day last week an automobile was ordered to take him driving. Waiting for it, the 84-year-old inventor suddenly seemed to doze off. He had collapsed. Sons Theodore, Thomas Alva Jr., Charles and Mr. Edison's daughter & son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. John Eyre Sloan, bustled about excitedly.* Doctors arrived from Morristown...
...fruit sugar purified for laboratory research costs $27.22 a pound. Dr. Jackson's three new sugars are not for sale. To produce the small quantities he has, cost at the rate of $50,000 a pound. Laboratory inulin costs $90 a pound. Its natural sources are dandelions, dahlias, goldenrod and. above all, the Jerusalem artichoke...
...Public-spirited, he helped Colorado taxpayers fight their Moffat Tunnel case, served as local president of the Boy Scouts, headed the State Bar Association. Slight in build, quiet in manner, conservative in dress, he enjoys writing amateur plays for Denver Cactus Club to produce (The Fire of Romance, The Goldenrod Lode, The Third...