Word: naper
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...planes for both work and play, and counter some of the expense by taking a tax deduction for business use. Erie Homeowner Francis Banderet, a construction and farm equipment dealer, sees to his far-flung clients' needs by plane. Robert McDaniels, a retired airline pilot who lives in Naper Aero, near Chicago, owns four planes. One is a 1917 wooden-frame Jenny; another is a two-seater he uses to give flying lessons at a nearby airfield...
...California desert adjoining Arizona has been picked almost clean of saguaro, red-barrel cacti and other species. It takes a cactus-naper 15 min. to uproot a plant that may have taken more than a century to develop. And the frail root systems of most big cacti seldom survive the shock of transplanting. Plant experts in Arizona estimate that their cactus population, a major part of the flora, will virtually have disappeared in three or four decades. Though scientists do not entirely understand the full role of Cactaceae in the delicate ecology of the desert, they do know that...
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