Word: peat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of Great Britain's export trade is the Scotch whisky industry; last year it earned $63 million in dollar sales, more than any other single British manufacture.* The heart of the Scotch industry is Glenlivet, a potent, peat-smoky liquor which many U.S. Scotch fanciers have never heard of. Glenlivet is little known because 98½% of its 220,000-gal. annual output is siphoned off by big brand-name Scotch distillers, who use it to provide tang, bouquet and flavor to their own blends. Unlike other Scotch distillers, Glenlivet's owner, 56-year-old Captain William...
Another reliable organization which sponsors work camps is the Finnish National Union of Students. These camps are only of two weeks duration . . of lifting, cutting, and loading peat in Southern Finland. The camps are doubly attractive since Finland is not only noted for its warmly pro-American feelings, which manifest themselves in a variety of pleasant diversions, but also because the Olympic Games are but a short distance away. Literature is free from the USNSA Travel Dept., 48 West 48 St., New York...
...been raining heavily for a day and a half and the field was as muddy as peat bog. Princetonians and their dates eagerly awaited the change in weather that had been forecast. It changed all right--it snowed...
...sprouted and began pushing out leaves last spring, no one was more surprised than Dr. George W. Harding of the National Capital Parks in Washington. The young plants looked perfectly normal. But the seeds, collected by a Japanese scientist named Ichiro Ohga, had been picked out of a Manchurian peat deposit and were claimed to be 50,000 years old. Most botanists were skeptical. The lotus seeds keep their vitality for a long time, they said, but 150 or 200 years is about the limit...
...Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Anacostia Park, the two young-old lotus plants are still thriving. But until they are due to bloom, in about five years, Dr. Harding will not know just what sort of lotus grew in the Manchurian peat bog 1,000 years...