Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...located at or near the center of a natural community, the resultant of a combination of a number of smaller schools each of which has given up its identity as an administrative school unit, maintaining full-grade and high-school courses. Offering a diversified curriculum, housed in a modern plant equipped for giving effectively the courses offered, transporting to and from school by safe and sanitary methods the pupils that live too far from the school building to walk, a,nd functioning as a center for community activities...
...MacDougal (no relation to Professor William McDougall, the Oxford-Harvard psychologist), is in charge of desert laboratories at Tucson, Ariz., and Carmel, Calif., for discovering the processes by which plant life takes energy from the air and the sun. He aims to supplement both the food and the fuel supply eventually, by obtaining carbon from the atmosphere without waiting for the slow vegetable process...
After the Armistice, Bethlehem faced a difficult problem of converting its facilities to peacetime production. The shift was made gradually and without great loss, and has now been completed. Only about 2% of the company's entire property and plant investment now consists of emergency ordnance plants. Bethlehem's feat is all the more remarkable when it is recalled that the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Co., taken over by Bethlehem in 1923, was likewise primarily a producer of war materials...
...counsel for the complainant asked first for a restrictive decree to stop the Blanque Mining Company in the state of Ames from operations which would allow sand and gravel used in their plant to be desposited on the complainants land in the state of Langdell. Secondly, they asked a mandatory injunction ordering the mining company to remove the sand and gravel already so deposited...
...Hollywood plant will resume operations with three companies. Gradually twelve companies will be engaged there. In 1924, 45 pictures will be made in Hollywood; 15 other film plays will be made at the Lasky studio on Long Island. This projected production of 60 pictures in 1924 compares with the 52 pictures produced in 1923. Mr. Lasky emphatically denied rumors to the effect that motion picture producers contemplated moving their studios from Hollywood to the East. Said he: "These reports about centering production in the East or about moving our studio East are entirely unfounded. Time after time we have investigated...