Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blight were checked within a fortnight, the locusts would develop wings, blitz the estimated 200,000-ton grain crop, sorely needed for relief. And, warned Professor Melis, should the locusts survive into July, when they lay eggs, next year's generation might "completely extinguish the island's plant life...
Henry J. Kaiser's chief worries as a steelmaker have been over iron ore for his plant at Fontana, Calif. This week Kaiser felt that these worries were ended. After more than two years of haggling he had acquired mining rights to famed Eagle Mountain, best source of ore in the West...
Fulwood soon tapped a bigger market. Canning companies, like Campbell Soup, Stokely-Van Camp, were then raising their own plants under glass in cold frames. They found that Fulwood's field-grown seedlings were hardier, could be harvested earlier and cost less ($2.50 to $3 per thousand v. $8 to $10 for cold frame plants). A tremendous market for seedlings developed (Campbell's alone buys 80,000,000 tomato plants a year) ano seedling growing sprouted into the biggest industry in Tift County. Where cotton had once been king, the new ruler was the tomato. Paul Fulwood...
...Husbands, 55, director of RFC and wartime head of Defense Plant Corp., became executive vice president of Transamerica Corp., which owns the largest single stock interest in the nation's No. i & No. 3 banks (California's Bank of America and Manhattan's National City Bank). Transamerica has no president, so Sam Husbands will serve as its operating head. He will be responsible only to Board Chairman A. P. Giannini, who also runs Bank of America...
...Besson had one foot over the window sill of his Paris flat when police broke in and collared him. The raiders also found stacks of counterfeit food and clothing coupons; a rackful of fake government rubber stamps; a veritable alchemy plant and enough pieces of gold to light the eyes of Captain Kidd...