Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...language problems grow out of news-gathering and news-writing: Readers overseas write us in their native languages asking us to do all sorts of things for them-to find a long-lost brother in Wisconsin, to get an interview with President Truman, to tell them how to buy a Fifth Avenue trousseau for a daughter bride-to-be. Two girls in our Letters Department spend most of their time just translating and trying to follow through on such requests...
...chemical just put on the market is an artificial frost for potatoes. When late potatoes reach maturity, farmers pray for frost to kill the vines. If it does not come, a lot of evils may. Potatoes grow lopsided, bumpy. Juicy vines clog the digging machinery, and blight spores from their still green leaves may infect the harvest...
Another triumph: production and isolation in pure crystalline form of the most deadly biological poison known to man, the toxin secreted by Clostridium botulinum, type A, bacteria which sometimes grow in home-canned vegetables...
...neglected. Diseases of cattle, even of chickens, were explored. The scientists cultured the smuts, rusts and blights that strike down the farmer's crops. They studied more than 1,000 crop-killing chemicals. Some of them, sprayed from the air "in infinitesimal dilution," allowed the crops to grow for a while, apparently healthy, but they yielded no harvest. In biological war, slow hunger would mop up the field behind quick death by pestilence...
Would such a privately owned synthetic industry continue to grow and improve? The committee hoped so, but as an aid it favored 1) a subsidy on rubber articles which contained synthetic, and 2) specifications requiring the use of synthetic in all essential articles in order to improve U.S. know-how for emergencies...