Word: plante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...involved is weather. If weather is good, so are crops. Too-big crops make too-small prices. If weather is bad, prices are good but many a farmer will have no crop to sell. Intelligent study of sound weather data will help stabilize his decision as to when to plant but the farmer still needs a gambler's instinct at planting time. And thereafter his fortune is in the lap of winds, rains, frosts...
...reason, according to the architects, why this part of the building should not be erected first. The plans now in existence show that the swimming pool forms a sort of wing to the main athletic building, almost a separate building," though harmonizing in every way with the complete indoor plant...
Fire which, according to press reports, caused $200,000 damage to the plant of the Van Dyke Printing Company of New Haven, Connecticut, and injured ten firemen early yesterday will lead to delay and possible abandonment of the publication of the Harvard University Register, it was learned last night...
...Register was nearing completion in the plant of the Van Dyke Company, and despite repeated efforts of the Editors to secure accurate information of the damage suffered by the volumes, it is believed from the meagre news obtainable that they were destroyed by the falling wall of the ruined building. When the exact amount of the damage is learned today, the Student Council and the Editors of the Register will probably decide their future course as to the publication of the book...
...hour after the night shift of workers had finished printing the Yale Daily New, also published by the Van Dyke Company, flames broke out on the ground floor of the printing plant and soon had enveloped the entire old structure, which is located at 123 Oliver Street. At the height of the configuration the side walls caved in under the weight of heavy machinery on the second floor and it is believed that only one wall remained standing when the blaze was finally extinguished through the combined efforts of every fire company in the city. Nine of the fire fighters...