Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important fields opened up by the new technique is the detailed study of the plant life involved in the formation of anthracite coal and petrified woods. Never before have botanists been able to secure satisfactory microscopic specimens from these hard rocks. Mr. Darrah has succeeded in making fossil peals of both coal and petrified woods, among them specimens containing the remains of pollen grains more than 200,000,000 years old from a coal deposit in Illinois...
...sewage disposal). Dr. Owen Harding Wangensteen, 37, surgery professor at University of Minnesota's medical school; the Samuel D. Gross Prize in surgery ($1,500) of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery: for innovations in the treatment of intestinal obstructions. Percy White Zimmerman, 51, and Albert Edwin Hitchcock, 38, plant physiologists of the Boyce Thompson Institute (Yonkers, N. Y.); the $1,000 prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: for a paper on plant hormones, including one which causes roots to sprout from any place on the stem if rubbed with the hormonal preparation. Dr. William Bosworth...
...membership, however, is disappointing. The fact that ninety per cent of the undergraduates who joined the Center have used its facilities constantly is ample proof that the plant is giving satisfactory service and moving rapidly toward the consummation of the purpose to which it was established. The authorities have made every reasonable effort to further the progress of the enterprise, including the maintenance of a graduate committee, and, more recently, the attachment of the membership charge to the term bill. With such cooperation on every side, the commuting students who campaigned so pugnaciously and vociferously last spring have no further...
...Fireman's executives stand high in Portland because they stuck to their home town, though the Pacific Northwest seemed an unlikely spot to start a plant producing a heavy mechanical product for world-wide distribution. Harry Banfield's old contracting partner and predecessor as Iron Fireman's president was killed in an airplane accident in 1928. Mr. Banfield was badly hurt in the same crackup. Quiet, reserved, he still likes to build bridges on the side, sometimes does. Vice President Edward C. Sammons was named "Portland's First Citizen for 1935." Another high-powered Iron Fireman...
...world over. The first commercial transport plane the 12-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. had ever built, it and the improved DC2 speedily lifted the company from insignificance to leadership. Simultaneously, the little Douglas factory at Santa Monica, Calif., grew into the world's largest airplane manufacturing plant...