Word: partes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Light in the Darkness. Nurserymen have known since 1920 that certain plants could be made to bloom earlier than usual by shading them with opaque cloth for part of each day. Guess was that something in the plant's internal mechanism recorded the smaller amount of sunlight, signaled the plant that the days had shortened, that colder weather was approaching, and that it had better flower fast. But botanists were unable to identify the day-measuring mechanism or explain how it worked...
Having learned that red light was the key, the scientists squeezed the juice out of bean seedlings, separated the juices into many different fractions, and tested each for its reaction to red light. Their quarry proved to be a protein-containing pigment that makes up only one part in one million of the juice...
DESALTING OF SEA WATER, which many governments are studying in hopes of finding an economic conversion process, is well along in the U.S. as part of a $10 million program. Carrier Corp. is testing a promising new method at a $150,000 pilot plant that will desalt water by freezing it, trapping salt crystals between fresh-water ice crystals...
...independent lines since ICC was formed in 1887, and one that President Stuart T. Saunders, who remains as boss of the surviving N. & W. could hail as a milestone. Said Saunders: "A great day in the history of the railroad industry. It reflects a farsighted viewpoint on the part of the commission...
...Colette by Anita Loos. As Gigi hoisted a young girl, Audrey Hepburn, into the limelight, Chéri may hoist a young man, Horst Buchholz. Playing the title role, this European film actor manages-not wholly through ability but through his matinee-idol appearance-to be the most effective part of a generally empty show. He plays the overindulged, sexually precocious, humanly immature son of a pre-World War I grande cocotte, who has brought him up to make a rich marriage...