Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared to descend. The great field was outlined feebly with lantern light. Down came the ship, its searchlights poking through the black, when suddenly the field lights blazed on and a frantic hour was over. Next day Chicago's City Council decreed immediate installation of an emergency power plant for Chicago Airport...
After Wallace's unforgettable visit, David's Uncle Byron, a botanist, took him to Rutgers College for postgraduate work. He entered the Department of Agriculture in 1889, and in the next half century became one of the world's greatest plant hunters...
...Smithsonian Institution. On board ship he met a rich, mundivagant Chicagoan named Barbour Lathrop, who became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from Hawaii, mangoes from Bombay, onions from Egypt, mangosteens (a pineapple-apricot-orange-flavored fruit...
General Foods Corporation, which maintains a "college fleet" of trawlers yesterday launched the "Harvard" a $250,000 vessel, from the plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at Fore River. A sister ship, the "Princeton" is to be launched later this month. The "Annapolis," "West Point" and "Yale" are already in commission...
Meanwhile, Lampy went to New York and in the printing shop the H. A. A. was using they took a great interest in all that was going on. But the numbers were no where to be seen. It was not until they had followed the plant's rubbish to the city dump and paid out no end of hush money that the valuable information came into their hands...