Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctrine of soil conservation has taken deep root in the South. Farmers plant less land to cotton, more to grass and legumes. They terrace their steeper fields skillfully, plow on the contour instead of up & down hill. On thousands of once sterile slopes, the miraculous vine, kudzu, clambers like Jack's beanstalk. It chokes devouring gullies with entangled soil. It buries fences, leaps into trees. Its big leaves, which stay green until Christmas, are as nourishing to cattle as excellent alfalfa. When plowed under, kudzu enriches the soil...
Comes the Revolution. It was at a Pasadena party in 1939 that Robert Oppenheimer, then 35, met Katherine Puening Harrison. A small, German-born brunette, Mrs. Harrison was the wife of a radiologist, and herself a graduate student in plant physiology at U.C.L.A. A year later, after the Harrisons were divorced, Kitty and Robert were married. Of the subsequent revolution in his habits, Oppenheimer says: "A certain stuffiness overcame...
...insulated concrete-slab floor for hardwood floors, eliminated the basement in favor of a utility room with a hot-water heater, put an oil heater in the living room and left closets doorless. They got the cost of the unassembled house down to $2,089 f-o.b. the plant. Added costs of erection, wiring, plumbing, etc., said Jim Price, should keep the house under $6,000 on a site costing no more than $650. (They have been limiting shipments to a 500-mile radius but now expect to ship anywhere.) Said Price: "You can buy it for as little...
Deal for Steel? General Motors Corp. announced that it would build two plants near Pittsburgh, one for "blanking" (cutting) steel, the other (a $13 million factory) for stamping out Fisher Bodies. G.M.'s official reason was that it needed a body assembly plant in the Pittsburgh area. But automakers thought there was another reason. They gossiped that G.M. had made a shrewd deal with Pittsburgh steelmen, who are worried that the decision on basing points (TIME, July 19) will make it hard for Pittsburgh to sell steel when the shortage is over. The steelmen reportedly had promised G.M. plenty...
...Swiss Davos, where the crocuses still bloomed and the cowbells tinkled, Bemelmans found the tuberculous rich coming again to the magic mountain from the four corners of the world. "The smoke from the disinfecting plant drifts up the side of a hill, and this Grand Hotel fashion of luxurious dying away from home is sadder than any other I have seen. The graves here lie in greater and more aching lonesomeness than soldiers' graves, in foreign lands...