Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first test flight at Saunders-Roe's plant at Cowes, the Hovercraft rose 15 in. above the concrete runway. Test Pilot Peter Lamb maneuvered it easily, using a standard aircraft control stick. To dramatize the low friction of its air cushion, Inventor Christopher Cockrell pushed the four-ton craft around the apron by hand. Later the Hovercraft was towed out into the Solent for its first water trial. It rose in a cloud of spray and skimmed easily above the water among yachts and harbor traffic...
...strike by the American Newspaper Guild, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat was silenced again last week by a walkout of 44 stereotypers. This time, the Globe was a chance victim: the stereotypers struck St. Louis' other paper, the Post-Dispatch, which bought the Globe plant last February and now prints both papers...
...sharp employment push was also helped by the fact that new plant and equipment expenditures, another area of economic lag during the recovery, are starting to pick up. First-quarter spending was at the rate of only $30.6 billion, but the second-and third-quarter forecast is for a rate of $32.3 billion and $33.4 billion, both well above last year's $30.5 billion...
Leafy Poultice. There is good reason to believe that there are many more potentially valuable drugs where these came from. Says Dr. Alfred Taylor of the University of Texas' Austin campus: "In plants we have more compounds than the chemists could synthesize in 1,000 years. And as a rule, the naturally occurring compounds are less likely to be poisonous than the synthetic, because they've developed in association with life." Cancer Researcher Taylor's team is testing plant extracts against cancer in mice, reports "more hopeful results with the natural compounds than with synthetics...
...narcotics charge) who had gained respectability and success as president of B. & B., which grew under him from a $2,000,000 gross to $59 million last year. Yvette Ward's first big job for his company was redecorating the conservative, antique-filled lobby of the main plant in St. Paul. Recalls she: "I went extremely modern, but before the paint was dry, the executives were crying that I was ruining the place. My husband told them to stay out of the lobby until it was done. Then they loved...