Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April 2), signed on as a director of Monsanto Chemicals Ltd., British subsidiary of St. Louis' Monsanto Chemical Co. He will become the subsidiary's board chairman July 1, succeeding Edward A. O'Neal Jr., who resigns to give full time to his post as the parent company's international operations vice president...
McCarthy had attacked the Kamin verdict, calling Judge Aldrich's decision "ridiculous to the point of being ludicrous." Aldrich held that McCarthy's investigating subcommittee had exceeded the powers Congress gave to its parent group, the Government Operations Committee...
...company's name comes from its parent roine in Butte, Mont., christened thus by its discoverer, who, while searching for something novel and mellifluous, read a Horace Greeley editorial in the New York Tribune enthusiastically describing the Union Army in the Civil War as encircling the Southern forces "like a giant anaconda...
After hearing aroused members of Washington's Parent-Teacher Association reel off a series of gloomy facts and figures about the capital's elementary schoolteacher shortage, Mrs. Arthur Riordan produced some evidence of her own to show the House Appropriations Committee just how low today's teacher standards have fallen. On one first-grade exercise paper she produced, the sevens had been written backwards. On another, three plus six made eight and two plus three made six. On still another, truck had become truk and trains trims. What alarmed Mrs. Riordan was not the mistakes themselves...
...consumed, and the carbon dioxide from the crew's lungs will have to be disposed of. Both jobs can be done at the same time by green plants, which separate oxygen from carbon dioxide. With this system in operation, the spaceship would be a miniature of the parent earth, where plants and animals, acting together, recycle the atmosphere...