Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animal relatives are a "type of highly modified plant life," according to Biologist Lawrence S. Dillon of Texas A. & M. By examining the internal structures of living cells. Dillon concludes that all life evolved from microscopic blue-green algae. From these algae developed two main branches of life. One became what is commonly called the plant kingdom, the other evolved into brown seaweed and eventually produced man and his fellow animals. Said Dillon: "We are forced to conclude that all life belongs to only one kingdom, which in all honesty must be recognized as the kingdom of plants...
Miss Isabel (by Michael Plant and Denis Webb) is Shirley Booth, but even that does not help much. With scarcely a sign of talent, the authors of Miss Isabel have tackled a stage subject that might make genius stumble. Their aging, white-haired heroine becomes mentally ill and imagines that she is a young girl and that her embittered, put-upon old-maid daughter is her mother. One act later, Miss Isobel imagines that she is a tiny child who keeps caterpillars in a shoe...
...purpose of fighting inflation. Wrote Slichter in Business Scope, a biweekly published by professors: "The present recession is largely the result of overdoing credit restraint, and is causing us to consume valuable inventories of goods and to reduce the rate at which we construct much-needed plant and equipment. In other words, the recession is making it easier in the long run for demand to outrun the supply of goods. Hence, the present recession tends to increase the likelihood of a rise in the price level...
...black Thunderbird rolled off a Ford plant assembly line, a worker affectionately scrawled in soap on the hood: "Bye, bye, baby." It signaled the end of the two-seater T-bird; this week Ford put out the car's 1958 successor, the ballyhooed four-seater. Ford's affection for the T-bird sprang from its surprising success. Ford expected to lose some $10 million on the car but make it up in added prestige for standard Fords. Instead, it sold twice as well as expected (53,166 produced in all), and made a profit to boot. The sleek...
...workers, 802 are research engineers, half of them busy with pure research. Renault is experimenting with a turbodiesel locomotive, and has already sold rattle-free, rubber-tired subway cars to the Paris Metro. Says President Dreyfus: "We must be regarded as something of a pilot plant that sets the pace for the rest of the nation's economy. For the past three years we have been able to raise wages by more than 12%, while holding the price of our finished product stable. By improving our productivity and our workers' living standards, we are helping France...