Word: plante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Muscle Shoals power, while a nitrogen-fixing industry is developing, will probably be considerably greater than is needed. But, if Muscle Shoals plants were eventually called upon to furnish all the nitrogen compounds necessary for domestic agriculture and industry, they would probably fall short of the demand for lack of power?they certainly would at the present stage of development. On account of the many "ifs," "buts" and uncertainties, whatever disposal is made of the plant must be reasonably flexible in its provisions...
...plan, in brief, provides: 1) That the Government shall retain ownership of Muscle Shoals; 2) that at any time the Government may take over the plant on five days' notice for the manufacture of nitrates for war purposes; 3) that the operators of the plant are to produce 40,000 tons of fertilizer annually after the fourth year and sell it at a profit of not over 8%; 4) that the Secretary of War is to lease the plant for 50 years to a private enterprise, on these conditions and on others concerning the disposal of surplus power...
...Harvard Cooperative Society, and nothing would give more pleasure than to buy all of them, or nearly all. But this must be a pleasure deferred, though if anything would make a journalist spend his money, it is the professional pride roused by the offer of "The Sensitive Plant." Books are always a temptation that must be resisted...
...control of the sugar cane Mosaic diseases. Dr. Weston received his master's degree from the University in 1912 and his Ph.D. in 1915. He began his study of the sugar cane diseases with Dr. East at Soledad last February, and continued last summer in Cuba with the Tropical Plant Research Foundation...
...Career for the College Graduate of Catholic Faith" at the second meeting of the St. Paul's Catholic Club of Harvard last night. Mayor Quinn, "as a practical man", expressed great admiration for Professor Munro's course in government. He cited the building of Cambridge's water altration plant as an example of cooperation between the University and the city government...