Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute has an $1,800 triangular quartz prism for studying the effect on plants of various wavelengths of light. Another equipment item is a huge, mobile frame, shaped like a dirigible hangar carrying powerful lights in the roof. It can be wheeled over a greenhouse to observe plant behavior under continuous 24-hour illumination. It has been learned that barley, cabbage and clover subjected to such treatment keep on growing 24 hours a day but that tomato plants quit, light or no light, and rest five to seven hours...
Your magazine has a great influence on its readers. When a magazine of your high calibre prints an anti-Semitic item, the damage is far greater than one printed in a less reliable periodical...
Most newsworthy Wood item at the Manhattan show was a pencil drawing on brown wrapping paper called Adolescence lent by Clarence Guy Littell, president of Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press). It showed a gaunt, pinfeathered Plymouth Rock cockerel rising in the faint light of early dawn between his plump parents for his first lusty crow (see cut). The drawing was made in 1933. Recently Artist Wood's good friend and competitor, Thomas Benton, saw it, grew hugely excited, wrote Grant Wood that if he did not make a painting of it at once...
From an obscure item in your Miscellany department I concocted a fiction story which recently sold to Detective Fiction, a Munsey weekly publication...
...some 700 Ontario towns & cities at cost. The municipalities in turn sell power to ultimate consumers over their own local distributing system, also at cost. Founded in 1906 by Act of Parliament, Hydro is financed by the Provincial Government but not subsidized except in rural electri-fication-a minor item. Its bonds are being amortized, so that eventually the municipalities will, in effect, own all Hydro's great plants and transmission lines, representing an investment of nearly $400,000,000, free & clear of debt...