Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that vegetables and flowers will grow in water if nutrient salts are added has been known for nearly a century. At the University of California ten years ago, however, William Frederick Gericke, who has the big, gnarled, capable hands of a born farmer (he was born on a farm in Nebraska), got the idea that not only experimental plants but commercial crops might be grown in water. So successful were his experiments that last summer the National Resources Committee listed "tray agriculture"-along with air conditioning, synthetic rubber, television, mechanical cotton pickers et al.- as one of the things...
...objects to the fact that a dozen or more small chemical companies have sprouted up to sell nutrient salts to amateurs or professionals experimenting with hydroponics. These have names like Chemi-Grow, Chemi-Crop Co., Shur-Gro Fertilizer Corp. They are legally within their rights, since hydroponics cannot be patented. The only patent which Dr. Gericke holds is for a container to diffuse the chemicals through the solution. But he argues, against the companies, that no formula works well for all plants, all climates, all conditions: and that even if they made a great variety of formulae there are other...
...might finally get some cooperation from other coffee producing nations. For that is the crux of the problem. While Brazil has rigorously and painfully sliced away at her own surplus, necessarily sacrificing some part of her share of the world market, rival nations, notably Colombia, have greedily continued to grow and sell more & more coffee. In the crop year ended June 30, Brazilian coffee exports were off 12%, those of rival nations up 11%. During the first four months of the current crop year, Brazil shipped 18% less coffee to world markets than in the corresponding period of 1936. Meanwhile...
...University's work in training men is recognized the world over, but it seems a pity that in the very shadow of Harvard hundreds of boys should grow up to be criminals, panhandlers, or burdens on the state...
...York Mail in 1902). Then he became sales-manager of the long-extinct U. S. Motor Co. and in 1913 took over the management of the Automobile Manufacturers Association, then called the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Thus occupied ever since, he has seen the A. M. A. grow into one of the nation's most potent trade groups. One of Al Reeves's jobs as A. M. A. vice president and general manager is running the annual U. S. Automobile Show. Last week Impresario Reeves was up to his fenders in work preparing Manhattan's hulking...