Word: hemp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since their dramatic divorce in 1948, Russia and Marshal Tito's Communist Yugoslavia agreed last week to resume doing business. In Belgrade the two governments signed a short-term agreement, bartering Russian crude oil, manganese, cotton and newsprint for Yugoslavian ethyl alcohol, tobacco, meat and hemp. Tito had also hoped to get some wheat for Yugoslavia, but the Russians, who have been having serious trouble with grain production (TIME. June 14), confessed that they had none to spare...
...only the Government was big enough to finance them. But the Government also still operates many a business that has no such reason for existence. President Andrew Jackson began Boston's 119-year-old Navy Rope Walk so that the Navy would not be dependent upon Russian hemp. U.S. ropemakers can now supply all the Navy's needs, but the Boston Rope Walk goes merrily on, with that hardy indestructibility peculiar to Government businesses once they get going. In 1902 the Navy started to experiment with paintmaking. By 1951 it produced an estimated 2% of all U.S. paint...
...Hashish (from the Arabic word for dried herb), a narcotic made from the resin of female flowers of Indian hemp, is the Eastern version of marijuana. It was once the favorite stimulant of the Assassins (more properly Hashish-ins), a secret society of Shiite fanatics founded in the 11th century, whose drastic political actions led to the gradual adoption of their name as a synonym for killer...
...first running of the 1½-mile, $50,000 Washington International drew three first-class European horses-England's Zucchero and Wilwyn, Germany's Niederlander -and Indian Hemp, a Canadian-owned hopeful which had raced in England. The U.S. opposition, which might have been better, consisted of Brookmeade's handicap star, Greek Ship (ridden by Eddie Arcaro), Ruhe (third in the 1951 Kentucky Derby) and a favorite Maryland router named Pilaster. Although the distance and the turf course favored Zucchero (touted as "the greatest four-year-old in Europe") and Wilwyn (winner of ten straight), all three...
...also sent home a priceless rubbing from the stone text of a Confucian doctrine dated 745 A.D., with a commentary by the Emperor Hsiüan-Tsung; a Tibetan book written in pure gold; a 600 A.D. scroll found in the caves of northwest China with the original hemp wrapper signed by the woman who wove it. Gest impoverished himself supplying funds for Gillis, who had resigned his commission to devote full time to the collection. Gillis collected a library of Bibles written in 25 dialects, 20,000 books from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), 500 volumes on Chinese medicine...