Word: grower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photograph was taken with a one-inch lens and the body can be discerned on a clear night with the naked eye. The comet was seen a few hours earlier by Peltier, a variable star observer in Ohio, who saw it without a telescope. In California a Japanese vegetable grower, named Sase, who was busy with his lens saw it also with the result that the comet now bears the name Peltier-Whipple-Sase
...each commodity, to be paid by miller, spinner, packer or processor, and passed on to consumer, would be the difference between the "minimum price" and the actual market price. Thus, if wheat was selling at 50? per bu., the miller's tax would be 25? to give the grower...
...point. The-fight began last October when National Nut News published a letter from big Southland Pecan Co. of Columbus. Ga., attacking National Pecan Marketing Association, a Farm Board-sponsored cooperative, for being a Governmental agency in competition with citizens. The N. P. M. A. replied that it was grower-owned and controlled, borrowing money from the Farm Board only as it would from a bank. Last week Southland President Sidney Goldberg Simmons told the entire trade that, "like a giant octopus whose tentacles envelop and crush the object of its prey, the N. P. M. A. is slowly...
Before the War, William A. Wilson was a chemist. After the War he was an invalid, unfit for strenuous work. In Springfield, Mo. he tried raising pigeons and guinea pigs, failed to make a living. Then he met H. B. Sutter, a fruit grower, who suggested raising white mice for scientific experiments. Two years ago they bought 20 mice, paired them. Every three to six weeks a white mouse produces a litter of eight to twelve white mouselets, who within three months are themselves producing litters of eight to twelve white mouselets. Last week the Wilson-Sutter mousery consisted...
...Other Income." Mushrooms grow in dark, cool places. Boston Elevated Rail way Co. last week asked for permission from the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities to rent a portion of on. of its subway stations to a mushroom grower. No opposition developed...