Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheat crops and restrict exports. Since rich & pious Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett came to the Conference proposing such a plan he joined forces eagerly with Mr. Morgenthau. Because a wheat pact may lead to diplomatic recognition and because Russia is having a hard time just now to grow a wheat surplus anyway. Uncle Henry found Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov willing to cooperate in restricting exports. But down in the Argentine there was the Devil to pay. A stubborn Argentine Senate, egged by small wheat growers, railed against restriction...
...light on the trajectory of human intelligence after birth came from the University of California's Dr. Harold E. Jones, who stated that people are smartest at the age of 21, after which they grow duller...
...sense of time also depends upon our sensory experience, added Professor Pieron while he was on the subject. Each individual has an organic rhythm which can be altered. Seconds become shorter for us when we have a fever, and conversely the days grow longer. An experiment on trained bees confirmed this heat-altered idea of time. The bees were trained to get their food at a particular time and place. The hotter the bees became the earlier they appeared for meals...
...these potent drugs in their own economies. When Dr. Chen removed the glands from several toads, they seemed as well as ever, pursued their proper business of bug hunting. Prospective toad farmers should note that a toad produces only one crop of drugs. The extirpated glands do not grow back...
...Steel reported a 65,241-ton rise in its backlog of unfilled orders to 1,929,815 tons. Operations for the industry as a whole jumped to 45% of capacity-highest rate in more than two years.* Cheery indeed are steelmen when their backlogs keep swelling while their furnaces grow hotter...