Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last fiscal year netted $2,862,276. Among the Meredith publications: Successful Farming (circ. 1,200,000), beamed at prosperous Midwest farm families, and the Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, which has sold 3,000,000 copies (87,000 so far this year). Last week the sprawling Meredith plant along the banks of the Raccoon River was spreading out again. It needed more space to house its peak staff (1,446) and five new color presses (cost...
...Given the physical plant and educational ideals of Harvard College, we believe that the normal enrollment should be 4300," the Provost said. The slashing of swellen postwar enrollment figures necessarily requires tuition jumps if the University is to balance its budget, he explained...
Other families were ripped apart. Mrs. William Mann and one of her daughters were among the Penman's employees who stayed on the job. Her son, Harold, and another daughter sided with the pickets, who jeered at old friends and relatives at the plant gates...
Unfortunately, says Einstein, the coercion has not lessened since he was a student. "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail...
Empire Abuilding. In the past three years, McCarthy has galloped off in all directions. He bought a radio station, a cluster of throwaway newspapers, a Detroit steel plant (to get pipe), export and import companies, a chemical firm...