Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...persuasive device. He puts the proper pollen in a little container (U.S. Patent 2,435,951) and attaches it to the beehive. The bees, forced to struggle through the Antles gadget on their way to work, carry to the flowers exactly the kind of pollen that the pistils need...
...once (about 1922) all but exterminated in their wild state, and South Americans tried to raise them. The animals multiplied all right, but their pelts in captivity proved almost worthless. U.S. nutria breeders had the same experience. In 1939, 50 pairs were released in Iberia Parish, La. (All they need for food is coarse marsh vegetation.) Next year one was found 65 miles away by water. By now, thriving in the wild, they have reached the delta of the Mississippi and crossed the state line into Texas. During the 1946-47 trapping season, the state of Louisiana collected taxes...
...trade-and especially the speculators whom Anderson's boss, President Truman, likes to thump-did not need much study to know what the program meant. When the Chicago market opened next day, May wheat promptly jumped the permissible daily limit of 10? a bushel, with other futures not far behind. The rise in wheat pulled up corn, oats, soybeans and lard. By week's end, profit-taking by traders had reduced some of the gains. But Anderson held out hope for another rise. The Government, he hinted cheerily, might resume wheat-buying fairly soon...
...technological front, "teevee" was also busy. Last week there was a spate of new developments. Arcturus Radio & Television Corp. was readying sets that need no aerials at all (price: around $400 to $1,400). Electronic Laboratories, Inc. began marketing a plug-in gadget ($80 for table models; $120 for consoles) to make sets work on direct current, thereby adding 300,000 potential customers in Manhattan alone...
Princes are men of women born, And turn again to lowly dust . . . Since no man then can give us aid, We turn to God in our great need...