Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointed two new members of the State Board of Agriculture for the purpose of securing the election of George Wilson, Farmer-Laborite, as President of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College. Wilson was elected and announced a policy which would bar the classics and install a model packing plant. Students, alumni, citizens of Stillwater and American Legion rebelled. Now the two new members of the Board of Agriculture have been removed. This, in the words of Governor Walton, " means a change in the Presidency of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of this state." The Governor explains that he acts...
Information is beginning to leak out regarding some experiments Henry Ford has been conducting for several years in connection with a new, low-temperature process for burning and distilling bituminous coal. Preliminary tests have been made quietly in a small plant at Huntington, W. Va., and two new plants are now under construction, one at River Rouge, Michigan, adjoining the Ford plant there, and a second at Walkerville, Ontario. Until these plants have been in operation for some time, the extent to which the new process is commercially successful cannot be determined...
...useful guide to merchants in granting credit-for obviously there should be a difference in the amounts which descendants of Abe Lincoln and of Jesse James should be allowed to charge. First Families of America should lend a new significance to Arbor Day, and with some useful slogan, like "Plant Another Family Tree," should inspire many ambitious young men with the first principles of conservation...
...MeClung, of the University of Pennsylvania, Michael F. Guyer, of the University of Wisconsin, and T. H. Morgan and Edmund B. Wilson, of Columbia, rests on strictly objective data. They say there is a special chromosome (chromosomes are minute bodies of constant number and appearance for each species of plant or animal which appear in the cells during cell-division) called the X-or accessory chromosome, which is found in half the spermatozoa of male animals. This is present in addition to the regular number of chromosomes, which always occur in pairs (48 in man), thus giving rise...
...Willys-Overland concern is the biggest industry in the state of Ohio, and dominates the city of Toledo, where it has a plant covering many acres, and employs thousands of workmen. The Company is now producing nearly 1,000 cars a day, and the demand is apparently increasing...