Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week and immediately crowded. To save wheat, from which spaghetti and macaroni are made, the canteens will not offer these comestibles at a reduced rate, will attempt instead to popularize potatoes,- a vegetable thus far unloved by Latins. F. I. A. T. For Italy's biggest industrial plant a $10,000,000 bond issue was sold...
Potash is one of the sloppy words of English. Originally it meant wood ashes (potassium carbonate). Now it may mean caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) or even pure potassium oxide, an excellent fertilizer. By potash people mean potassium, a, metal absolutely essential to plant life.* When drained from the soil potassium (as one of its salts) must be replaced in the form of a fertilizer, else only weazened crops will result. The primitive farmer manures his plot with stable gleanings and slaughter-shed offal. The Chinese peasant assiduously gathers the dried plaques of cow dung, the desert agrarian those left...
Here artificial fertilizers must be brought on in the form of some soluble salt of potassium, soluble so that the plant may absorb it through its roots...
Chevrolet gets $8,000,000 to expand its plant. Now it is losing trade from inability to supply demand...
Buick, the sturdy prop of G. M. C., needs a body plant at Flint, Mich.; gets...