Word: plante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indo lent, not particularly patriotic and almost joyfully unencumbered by anything remotely approaching an Occidental's concept of financial integrity. An official or a rich man has immemorially been expected to accept bribes, embezzle, cheat. The peasantry have usually chosen for their principal crop that hardy weed, the opium plant, a species of vegetation which requires absolutely no cultivation and fairly luxuriates upon the ideal soil of Persia. Not surprising, then, was the discovery of the Millspaugh Mission that in 1922 there were very few tomans in the Treasury, scarcely an official not addicted to taking bribes and hardly...
Thomas Edison's European agent was the man who brought the young Tesla to the U. S. After his first job for Mr. Edison?an all-night job putting a steamer's lighting plant in commission?Mr. Edison ejaculated to an associate: "This is a damn good...
Sometimes he visits his experimental plants in Colorado and on Long Island. Six years ago he said: "The matter of transmitting power by wireless is now so well in hand that I can say I am ready now to transmit 100,000 horsepower by wireless without a loss of more than 5% in transmission. The plant required to transmit this amount will be much smaller than some of the wireless telegraph plants now existing and will cost only $10,000,000, including water development and electrical apparatus. The effect will be the same whether the distance is one mile...
...situation. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, established his intimacy with Mr. Ford; said: "Twice this year I have gone to Dearborn and have talked to him about the Dearborn Independent articles. On my most recent visit?on May 11?Mr. Ford, with whom I spent five hours at his experimental plant, told me he had made up his mind to discontinue absolutely and permanently in any publication owned by him all articles such as those that had given offense to Jews. He added that if his orders were violated he would?I quote his words?'shut the thing down completely...
...first man to shake Signor de Pinedo's hand and to plant a kiss upon Signor de Pinedo's cheek was Premier Benito Mussolini, august upon a barge on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The people on the beach, taking their cue, applauded loudly, cheered lustily...