Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Locks & Winds. At present, AEC experts explained, this fiercely dangerous stuff is well locked up. The Clinch River flowing near Oak Ridge is less radioactive than many mineral springs whose water is highly prized for drinking. The air outside the Oak Ridge plant is safe too. A man moving to Oak Ridge would get increased radiation equivalent only to the increase he would get (from cosmic rays) if he moved from sea level to an altitude of 5,000 feet, e.g., Denver...
...trying to build a tractor that wouldn't bog down in them. He designed one that would move on a track and pick it up and lay it down as it went-the first Caterpillar. As demand for the new-fangled invention spread east, Holt opened a branch plant in East Peoria. That became the main plant after the Holt Manufacturing Co. merged with its biggest competitor in 1925 and became Caterpillar Tractor...
...make these economies jibe is shown by France's wine industry, which traditionally depended on exporting its luxury products to Britain. Austeritarian Britain can no longer afford them. Some Britons coldly suggest that the French would do better to pull up some of their vines and plant potatoes instead...
...talk was not enough. For Weizmann, the chemist, Zionism was "something organic, which had to grow like a plant." The plant, he felt, could grow only in Palestine and only by physical Jewish achievements in Palestine. He based his philosophy of action on Goethe's famous saying...
...that of odd-shaped pebbles on a beach. In On My Way, Arp had hit upon a deceptively simple justification for his own work and for abstract art in general. Art, said he, should be as natural as the fruits of the earth, "but whereas the fruit of a plant never resembles a balloon or a president in a cutaway suit, the artistic fruit of a man generally shows a ridiculous resemblance to the appearance of other things...