Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House, the magnolias were in full bloom and a fountain, surrounded by orange tulips, splashed beguilingly. Gardeners gave the lawn its first spring trim, and the smell of new-mown grass wafted through the open windows of Dwight Eisenhower's office. The President, like most Americans, responded to the beck of spring, tried to fit a little fun into the pressing routine of work. Last week...
Last January, the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association repealed its eight-week-a-year limitation on acceptance of invitation tournament expenses by the U.S.'s star players. Even before, however, gadabouts like Seixas & Co. were not much restricted in their gadding. The U.S.L.T.A.'s "emancipation proclamation" merely changed the text to fit long-existing facts. Whenever the eight weeks' rule was not honored in the breach, it was usually bypassed with exceptions. The tennis tourist's new year-round freedom to live off the fat of many lands will, nonetheless, add many new stops to old itineraries...
...with their mother, Mrs. John Eisenhower, the evening before. Young Dwight David Eisenhower II, who will celebrate his fifth birthday this month, Barbara Anne, 3, and Baby Susan Elaine, 1, were paying their first visit to grandfather's new house. One fine afternoon they played on the back lawn under the budding magnolias. When the photographers arrived, David obligingly lifted Skunky, the family's portly Scotty, for a moment, but had to give it up. "She's too fat," he puffed. Then he and curly-headed Barbara Anne peddled their tricycles over a stretch of grass made...
Water Worm. Plastic garden hose which acts as a lawn sprinkler was put on sale by A. M. Andrews Co. of Portland, Ore. Holes punched along the Vinylite hose spray a 12-ft.-wide swath of lawn. Price for a 50-ft. length, which weighs only 1½ lbs. and can be rolled into a 6-in. bundle...
Automatic Gardener. Texas Lawn Sprinkler Co. is selling an electric control that automatically turns on an underground sprinkler system and waters a lawn when it needs it. Two electrodes keep track of the moisture in the air and soil can be set to turn on the sprinkler system if the moisture falls below a certain point. Price of the sprinkler system varies according to the size of the lawn, e.g., about $2,000 for a 100-by-200-ft. lawn. Price of the control...