Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad powers to instruct farmers what to sow and produce. But Dennis claimed that mustard would not thrive because the field was infested with charlock (wild mustard, a common agricultural pest detested by grain farmers). Anyway, he said, "I reckon to know more about how to till my own land than any Government official." Defiantly, he sowed buckwheat. Thereby he committed two offenses: 1) he ignored the Committee's orders; 2) he planted buckwheat. In Britain, a farmer cannot plant buckwheat without a license. Busy Farmer Dennis...
...that time, a poor market for cord was just one of Yucatán's troubles. Philippine abaca made stronger rope. India's jute made better bags. On top of everything else, President Cárdenas enforced Mexico's agrarian laws, and the largest land owners found their plantations cut to 300 acres apiece. By 1938, Yucatán, which once held all the world's binder twine market, was down to a 20% share...
...then settled into a steady roar. At 140 m.p.h., Cobb shifted into second gear, into high at 240 m.p.h. About halfway down the 14 mile course he entered the measured mile. Cobb, a London fur-broker, had spent over $30,000 to try to break his own 1939 land-speed record (369.7 m.p.h...
Practical consequences are not yet in sight, for the wave mechanicians work in a never-never land far beyond the frontier of practical technology. But Nobelman Rabi compared Lamb & Retherford's criticism of the Dirac theory with Einstein's modification of Newton's laws of motion. It took 40 years for Einstein's relativity to grow into the atom bomb...
...reading, it looked like the chance of a lifetime. A rayon mill took a one-column display ad in the new York Times to hunt a "person of exceptional ability" to sit on its board of directors. Starting salary: $25,000 a year. All anyone had to do to land the job was get the company 15,000 Ibs. a month of four different kinds of rayon yarn. Only the textile industry knew what that condition meant: an extreme improbability. By last week, rayon yarn was so scarce that the scramble for it made the 1946 nylon search look like...