Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Control with a Vengeance. Actually, even among the farm groups, hardheaded farmers looked skeptically on Charlie Brannan's rabbit. From the farmer's standpoint, the suspicious part of the deal was that it would also give the Government more power to decide what farmers could plant, how they could sell. A limit would be placed on how many benefits a farmer would receive from the Treasury, but this, said Brannan, would really encourage smaller farms; it would hit only the big farms making up 2% of the nation's 5,800,000 farms. Thundered Vermont...
Atlantic-shuttling Lady Astor, visiting Jesse Jones in Houston, dropped in on Fort Worth, found its huge Consolidated Vultee Aircraft plant the thrill of her trip. She would much rather pitch in and work there, she said, than in the British plane factory where she did a wartime stint...
...world's finest landing field. A deliberately overloaded bomber can labor for miles across the lake before it tries the air. An experimental jet fighter of unproved design can be tested and wrung out, with worlds of room for landing if there is a structural or power-plant failure. Muroc's miles & miles of smoothness have allowed many a crash-threatened pilot and airplane to survive and fly again...
...Boost. Washington and Lee started out in 1749 as Augusta Academy, when early settlers of the region decided to plant Scottish-Presbyterian learning in the Valley of Virginia. In 1798, the year before he died, George Washington handed the school its first big boost: $50,000 worth of canal stock, that had originally been the gift to Washington of the Virginia Legislature. The school gratefully changed its name to Washington Academy, later to Washington College...
Morale. The Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co., which employs 496 foundry workers, has a plan to make working in a foundry pleasanter-and also cut down the danger of infection from dirt, acids, etc. The company pays 25? a day to every worker who takes a shower bath at the plant before going home. The company reported last week that it paid out $28,837 in 1948 shower money...