Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India, where Baker spent three months and traveled 15,000 miles by air, dockside strikes and irregular mail delivery from TIME's branch printing plant in Cairo had accumulated quantities of unsold newsstand copies of TIME. They were stacked in a warehouse in the Moslem section of Calcutta and TLI's distributor, a Hindu like most Indian businessmen, did not dare try to recover them. Baker located a bearer who was a Christian and helped load the back copies of TIME into a truck himself. Later, the bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band...
...trip had gone over big; U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder liked Brazil and Brazil liked him. He had come to talk business in a country where U.S. investments of $611,000,000 are second only to Britain's. He had a chance to see, in a plant such as Volta Redonda (steel), the sort of thing for which the U.S. had put up Export-Import cash. When he talked, he talked straight. Brazilians...
From Texas A. & M. College, the county agents called in Dr. A. A. Dunlap, plant pathologist. The trouble was caused, he said, by 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) the miracle weedkiller (TIME, June 30). Further sleuthing uncovered the source: it had come from rice farms which planes had dusted with the chemical to kill broadleaved weeds. From the rice fields it had drifted, sometimes as far as 15 miles, to the cotton fields. If possible, 2,4-D should be sprayed rather than dusted. If it has to be dusted, it should be mixed with oil to prevent...
...item in Big Steel's earnings statement was an extraordinary additional charge of $6,700,000 (a boost of 30% over normal) for plant depreciation. New York's jumpy PM promptly jumped on it, cried that the $6,700,000 was profit that Big Steel had hidden to excuse its boost in prices. Olds conceded that the item was not "presently" deductible for tax purposes.* Thus in the eyes of the U.S. Treasury, it might be considered profit. But Olds claimed that the depreciation was warranted by recent increases of far more than 30% in the cost...
With all its roughness and frequent lapses into the banalities of America's "tough" writers, Sartre's new novel is a rare and welcome plant in a period that almost completely lacks a balanced combination of emotional intensity and maturity in its writers. The author's obvious power in understanding character, together with a sort of revolted fascination for sordidness and degradation, make the book provocative and at the same time a little loathe-some. The moral twist at the end, which shows the most warped character to be the most responsible, is convincing, yet takes away nothing from...